Award-winning poet Sam Love is the Featured Poet at the Nexus Poets’ First Tuesday Poetry Open Mic in April. He will be reading from his new anthology of eco-poetry, "Earth Resonance: Poems for a Viable Future." It is an in-person meeting with room for social distancing and will also be webcast on Zoom. After the Featured Poet reads, the mic is open for original poems from other poets who sign up. To receive the evening’s Zoom link or be listed to read, email nexus@nexuspoets.com. Nexus Poets is a local not-for-profit local writers organization established in 2014, With humility and a dash of humor, the accessible poems in "Earth Resonance" raise awareness about reducing our culture's footprint on the natural world. Hear samples at the poet's web site: www.samlove.net. Denis Hayes, President of the Bullitt Foundation and the national coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 said this about Earth Resonance: “Sam’s poetry is lucid and provocative. Fifty years ago, as one of the first Earth Day regional organizers, Sam played a key role in Earth Day’s mobilizing millions of people. Now Sam writes beautifully of environmental shame and hope.” Sam has three published books of poetry and his poems have been published in numerous publications including Duke University’s Eno magazine. His nonfiction articles have been published in magazines including Smithsonian, and Washingtonian. He also authored with illustrator Sam Rae Duke an award-winning illustrated children’s book My Little Plastic Bag designed to share with children what happens to a plastic bag thrown out of a car window.