The 2018 Ross Andrews Poetry Contest
has concluded.
has concluded.
Ross Andrews was a young environmental educator who believed in the importance of the Natural World and Humans’ relationship to it. He spent years developing his own deeper relationship to Earth. Even as a soil and forestry restoration scientist, Ross knew that the key to our collective futures was through the heart and spirit. He found that poetry was the path to express his passion for the beauty, wonder, awe and/or intimacy that one experiences with the natural world.
Ross spent the last eight years of his life working with young people and helping them reconnect in deeper relationships with the Earth. In honor of his death, his friends and relatives have chosen to remember him with an annual Nature Poetry contest.
Ross spent the last eight years of his life working with young people and helping them reconnect in deeper relationships with the Earth. In honor of his death, his friends and relatives have chosen to remember him with an annual Nature Poetry contest.