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environmental despair, a resource toward ecoliteracy for teachers of students of all ages, and for everyone interested in the confluence of ecology and the arts.” Perhaps the most striking aspect of
Morning Earth is the five-day-a-week combination of a nature photo and a short ecologically literate poem, taken and written each day by Caddy working from his home in the Minnesota woods. This pairing is sent out each morning to some 1,500 subscribers many of whom are classroom teachers. They are also updated daily on the website, Many hundreds of these photo-poems are archived on the web site which now receives several thousand unique visitors a month.
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gifts received from Earth. The gifts are gifts of beauty, surprise, laughter, intricacy, and sometimes painful lessons, which are a joy delayed. To begin, John just did this practice in eight-week school-scheduled stints; since 2001 he has written and emailed the poems year-round to a steadily growing list of friends, classroom teachers, and subscribers who read about the project in magazines or newspapers. In 2005 John added photos to the poems. Morning Earth poems now whisk themselves off to five continents.
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John Caddy was chosen from artists of all genres to receive the 2012 McKnight
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In 1998, Caddy began writing a small Earth poem every weekday morning, which he then emailed to subscribing classrooms in his SEE program at
Hamline University's Center for Environmental Education. The key to this new practice is celebration, John writes, for the poems were all in response to brief
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In 1994, shortly before establishing his SEE program, Caddy suffered a stroke, and he was then hemiplegic, paralyzed on his left side. In his own words: “In 1994 I suffered a stroke, and was elated to find myself alive, somewhat sensible, and still capable of making poems.... came home to the land,
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Caddy had long used poetry and other art forms in his environmental teaching, and in the mid-1990s, he began his Self
Expressing Earth program. Among other things, SEE offered immensely successful workshops for teaching artists, naturalists and classroom teachers. These were week-long events, taught
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Caddy's poetry honors include the Lakes and
Prairies competition of Milkweed Editions which resulted in his first full book,"Eating the Sting,including The Heronry", in 1986. A Loft/McKnight award quickly followed, as did a Minnesota State Arts Board award. In 1989 John won the Poets & Writers'
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Expressing Earth evolved into Morning Earth, a non-profit 501(3)c educational organization. Originally sponsored by Hamline University’s Center for Global Environmental Education, Morning Earth has become, among other things, a web site of over 400 pages that Caddy describes as “an antidote to
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John Caddy’s upbringing in northern
Minnesota was nature-saturated, and as a teacher and poet his work has ever reflected these beginnings. During the 1960s and 70s he began a long career as a teacher of writing, working with students ranging from kindergarten through graduate school, in over 800
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Cornwall, Britain, and found cousins and great homecoming feelings. During subsequent visits to Cornwall John did several reading tours, and completed a chapbook, "Presences the Blood Learns Again," which in 2001 resulted in his initiation as a Bard of the Cornish
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I was freshly amazed by beauty; in my absence, green had learned a thousand new names.... After stroke therapy, I decided to spend the rest of my allotted time writing and sharing poems of celebration and helping people recover their intuitive connections with Earth.”
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In 1984 John and his collaborators won a Studio X-2 Grant from the Jerome
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is at once an outstanding artist and an inspiring environmentalist, an exceptional representative of our state's arts community. I am delighted to honor John Caddy as the 2012 McKnight Distinguished Artist. "
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in residential environmental ed camps. They were not just about art and the environment, they were deep, experiential immersions in both, and many participants reported that these weeks were life-changing.
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schools. To recognize his 35 years of teaching as a resident artist, Caddy received the 1997 Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Arts Education.
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John Caddy's largest and latest collection of poetry is 2008's "With Mouths Open Wide: New and Selected Poems" (Milkweed Editions).
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In 2003, Milkweed Editions published a collection of these poems as 'Morning Earth: Field Notes in Poetry.'
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