Name: Riverever — Preorder
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Riverever — Preorder

In the headwaters, the pull begins…

I step back into the channel
of things

relinquishing the shore
and the destination…

RIVEREVER is a collection of poetry and field notes born beside, inside, and in devotion to living waters. From headwaters to sea, the rivers here are not backdrop. They are kin, myth, mirror, memory, and motion.

Through grief and play, drought and shimmer, ancient story and surprising encounter, Riverever follows water’s invitation back into intimacy with the animate world.

when asked to which country
we belong
we said—

we’re citizens of her flow

For those who have ever stood beside moving water and felt something ancient in themselves begin to stir.

Preorders ship late Summer 2026.

RIVEREVER PRE-ORDER – EDITION OPTIONS

River Stone – A simple current into the watershed

Paperback copy of Riverever
Early access to release updates and river-stone notes

Confluence Edition – A fuller immersion into the wider river field

signed paperback
20-page color Companion Ecology PDF with river lexicon, field notes, and behind-the-poems reflections
early access excerpts and origin/place transmissions

Kin Collection Edition – For those wanting to follow the river into the wider kinship ecology

Everything included in the Headwaters current
Paperback copy of Moon Has a Long Memory
A bundled current into the growing Kin Collection ecosystem of more-than-human poetry

Choose your preorder edition below.

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Venmo: RyanVanLenning

include “Riverever” + your address/email in the note

Description

We are citizens of her flow.

Riverever enters the flow:

late Summer 2026

Early preorders help nourish the wider Kin Collection tributaries as they emerge.

I step back into the channel
of things

relinquishing the shore
and the destination…

Flowing from mountain headwaters to soulwaters, these poems wander through creeks, otters, salmon, dams, floodwaters, stone, longing, and the great sea within and beyond us.

Part ecstatic praise-song, part ecological love letter, part animist field guide, Riverever invites readers into deeper relationship with the living world and the wild currents moving beneath modern life.

These poems live inside the questions:
What if rivers are not resources, but relatives?
What if flow itself is a form of wisdom?
What if we, too, belong to the Great Meandering?

Riverever is part of the Kin Collection

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 One Bright and Real Caress, Lend Your Tears Back to the Watershed, Becoming Beautiful Barbarians, 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