Wild Nature Heart

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An orientation to the Wild Nature Heart ecosystem:

courses, books, immersions, and liberatory pathways into deeper participation with the animate web of life.

WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS

Upcoming Programs:

💧Write Your Wild River (Starts Sunday, October 11)
🌎Earth Intimacies (Starts Thursday, October 15)
❤️‍🔥Deep Belonging in the Great Composting (6 Fridays starting October 9)

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Books from the Wild Nature Heart Field

NEW & EMERGING:
The first two THRUM books, Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed, are available now.

Wild Nature Heart’s collection of organic, free-range poetry books. Forage among the 10 available now.

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Riverever

River, I trust your journey. I’ve been mostly quiet about this one. Maybe appropriately: Rivers have their own timing. While Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed have been making their way into the world, this little creature has been quietly moving alongside them. RIVEREVER is…

Posted on September 16, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Empire Is Young. Earth Remembers Other Worlds.

Spend sufficient time among redwood, stone, and lichen elders and Empire begins to feel like a temporary administrative error, or a nervous system glitch. A futile attempt at paving overand filling up with all the wrong things. A hungry ghost.An ungrieved wound.Maybe one day…

Posted on September 7, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

📚 Becoming Beautiful Barbarians & Watershed have arrived

They arrived.They’re beautiful. I can’t wait to begin signing them. After years of wandering through notebooks, rivers, forests, grief, laughter, edits, and countless cups of fir tip tea, the first printed copies of Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed are finally here. In a couple…

Posted on August 6, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning