Name: Don't Forget the Smalls In Your Basket of Whos — Preorder
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Don’t Forget the Smalls In Your Basket of Whos — Preorder

A playful little collection of poems for the overlooked, underfoot, many-legged, slow-moving, spore-bearing, web-spinning, mud-loving, magnificently strange ones with whom we share the world.

Don’t Forget the Smalls in Your Basket of Whos is the third book in the Kin Collection, following Riverever and Moon Has a Long Memory. Through poems of slugs and butterflies, caddisflies and beetles, bees, mosquitoes, fungi, lichen, moss, stone, and other small wonders, these poems invite us to bend an ear closer to the ground, see from the snail-point-of-view, and reconsider who counts as a Who.

Part field-song, part tiny bestiary, part ecological love spell, The Smalls is an invitation to recover the kinds of attention that make the world enormous again.

Paperbacks ship December 1, 2026.

THE SMALLS PRE-ORDER OPTIONS

One Small Who – A simple way into the world of the Smalls

Paperback copy of Don’t Forget the Smalls in Your Basket of Whos

A Gathering of Whos – A few more small wonders gathered together

signed paperback
a small set of Smalls excerpt cards and whisper graphics

A Basket of Whos – Two-book bundle – For those wanting to follow the slug slime into the wider kinship ecology

Everything included in the Gathering of Whos edition
Paperback copy of Riverever or Moon Has a Long Memory
A bundled buzzing into the growing Kin Collection ecosystem of more-than-human poetry

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Description

A thousand worlds beneath our hurry

Don’t Forget the Smalls starts crawling

December 2026

Early preorders help this creature crawl into the world
and nourish the wider Kin Collection.

Let each person you meet
be a path beyond forgetfulness

Don’t forget the Smalls
in your basket of Whos

Don’t forget the smells when you’re looking for clues

Don’t forget your nose
when you’re searching for hints

Don’t forget the sense of all of the scents

Don’t forget your ear, to put to the ground

Don’t forget the slow
when you forage for sounds

Don’t forget to see
from the snail-point-of-view

Don’t forget the Smalls
in your basket of Whos

Ryan Van Lenning is a threshold guide, ecotherapist, wilderness rite-of-passage guide, and barbarian poet of the Great Turning. Through Wild Nature Heart, he creates courses, poetic offerings, and ceremonies for re-inhabiting the animate web of life, tending grief, and practicing belonging in a time of unraveling and possibility. Author of several collections of poetry, including Watershed, Becoming Beautiful Barbarians, Riverever, One Bright and Real Caress, Within the Cave Something Pulses, and Trust the Ceremony, F*ck the Ceremony, and Trust the Ceremony.

He lives among forest and rivers in northern California, on ancestral Wiyot and Yurok land. He likes cinnamon ice cream, fantastic fungi, and river ottering.

More about Ryan and Wild Nature Heart.

Praise for Ryan’s poetry:

“Bless Ryan Van Lenning for listening to the wild voices and bringing back the news for those who have lost their way. Bless him for reminding us of our original love affair with the earth and of what we know deep in our souls. His poems give wise counsel: let go of the debris, remember who you are, do not abandon your luminous thread.” —Lorraine Anderson, editor of Sisters of the Earth and Earth & Eros “Ryan’s poetry speaks deeply and clearly to the awakening to our true interconnected nature, which is the only way we can transform our world.” –Molly Young Brown, Author of Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects (co-authored with Joanna Macy), Editor of Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects

“Ryan’s poetry sprouts out of him from moist, fertile soil – painting a lush landscape of sensual and philosophical magic. His poems transport you to a way of living in relationship with the earth that is lovingly intimate. Ryan integrates body, spirit, and social commentary into a vision of how to live a nature-inspired life amidst noise and overrun technology. ” Ariana Candell, LMFT, Founder of The Earthbody Institute