Hannah R. Harder

CONTACT:
Email: Hannah.harder@gmail.com
Tel: (405) 501-4742          

BIO:
Hannah R. Harder has studied Biology and English and has a master’s in Environmental Science. Her poetry book A Woman in the Wilderness is available on Amazon or signed copies may be ordered from her directly. She has lived in Wisconsin since 2018 and has worked as a naturalist and separately as an adjunct professor at Lakeland University. Her work imbues a contagious curiosity, love for landscape and the ways it interweaves in life, and a conservation ethic. She has a forthcoming podcast (summer 2021) The Unsalty Sea: Life On and Around Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes.

PUBLICATIONS:
A Woman in the Wilderness (2020).

Poetry

Tickled

Four feet in
to the Wilderness trail
the grasses
of Switch and Dropseed
tickle your face.

Prairie Broom
hangs like fishing line
And a single seed
of Button Bush
is the world
beneath
your fingers.

It is enough,
to have sticks
and cool creek beds
as divining rods.

Unbeknownst to you
The Oracle has come,

like manna—
From bees’ toes and
disgruntled cows
it feeds us—
wild-eyed creatures
seeking
extraordinary

Arcus

June at the Harbor,
and, still,
a cold front moves in.
A cloudless sky
swells and stretches,
then billows

around itself,
slowly, imperceptibly,
at first. 

I watch
mouth gaping
to see it
fold over itself
again and
again. 

The leading edge
rolls out
like taffy

quickly
consumed
by sky