Hoosic River

Hoosic River is a long poem dedicated to the Hoosic River Watershed Association (hoorwa.org), a nonprofit citizen group that looks after the river. This work was composed while visiting various public-protected lands inside the river’s watershed, places that reside in and around ancestral lands and the home today of Muhheaconneok and western Abenaki peoples. The river’s name belongs to the Algonquin language family and Algonquin peoples came to this land as home over twelve thousand years ago as the last glaciers retreated from the region when the river too came into being. Find David and his work at davidcrewspoetry.com

Author Biography

Originally from the state of New Jersey, where he served for fifteen years as a public high school literature teacher, David Crews now lives and works at Clear Brook farm, an organic fruit and vegetable farm located at the edge of the Hoosic river watershed in the Vermont valley, ancestral land of Muhheaconneok and western Abenaki peoples. He cares for work that explores land and place, wild(er)ness, preservation, nonviolence, and serves as board member with the Waterman Fund. He received an MFA in Poetry from Drew University, where he studied with poet-artists Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Ira Sadoff, and Judith Vollmer.His books include Incantation, a limited edition handmade chapbook of poems designed and produced by Josh Dannin of Directangle Press (2022), Wander-Thrush: Lyric Essays of the Adirondacks (Ra Press, 2018), and High Peaks (Ra Press, 2015)-a poetry collection that catalogs hiking the “Adirondack 46ers” in upstate New York. Find David and his work at davidcrewspoetry.com.