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From Inside These Wild Ones is a collection of earthy poetry emerging from the author’s experiment of living outside with the seasons and the living sky as his heart-home roof. From bees, bears, and birds, to storms, snakes, and silence, these poems honor the animate web of life and our intimate relationship inside it. The poems here are not only reminders of the mystery of our other-than-human kin, but evocations of the animals we are. Van Lenning weaves lyric, humor, and mythopoetic exploration to invite a multispecies, embodied, and soulful participation in the unfolding symphony of life. The beasts within are lurking, listening, yearning to live.
From Inside These Wild Ones is Book 3 in the Re-Membering Series.
If you are a nature and poetry lover, this is the collection for you. May the poems in From Inside These Wild Ones inspire your wild nature hearts and be a small part of The Great Turning.
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Ryan Van Lenning, M.A., is author of Re-Membering: Poems of Earth and Soul, One Bright and Real Caress, and High-Cooing Through the Seasons, a collection of haiku. His new collections, An Ambitious Silence, Becoming Beautiful Barbarians, and Trust the Ceremony, F*ck the Ceremony, Trust the Ceremony will be released throughout 2025-26. He is the 2019 recipient of Jodi Stutz Poetry Award by Toyon Literary Magazine and his work appears in journals and the books A Walk with Nature: Poetic Encounters That Nourish the Soul and Behind the Mask: 40 Quarantine Poems from Humboldt County.
Ryan is founder of Wild Nature Heart, supporting people to re-connect with the wisdom of both inner and outer nature, to live their callings into the world, and to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging during this Great Turning. He is a teacher, ecotherapist, and wilderness rite-of-passage guide and lives among the forests and rivers of Northern California.
Testimonials for previous collection Re-Membering:
“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
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