Charles Goodrich is the author of The Practice of Home and four widely read books of poetry: Watering the Rhubarb, A Scripture of Crows, Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden, and Insects of South Corvallis. He is also coeditor of two anthologies: Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest and In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens. His poems and essays have appeared in Orion, High Country News, The Sun, The Ecopoetry Anthology, Poetry of Presence and many other journals and anthologies. Garrison Keillor has featured Goodrich’s poetry more than a dozen times on The Writers’ Almanac.