Signal Akron interviews Charles Malone, Carrie George, and Jason Harris on their new poetry anthology Light Enters the Grove: Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park through Poetry.

“The Cuyahoga Valley National Park is home to hundreds of animal and plant species, from poison hemlock and American sweetgum trees to the eastern tiger swallowtail and the North American river otter. Thanks to its climate and geography, the park is ripe for biodiversity.

It’s also ripe for poetry.

Light Enters the Grove, a new poetry anthology from Kent State University Press, features 80 poems — each one about a different organism that lives in the park. The book will be released Tuesday, Aug. 27.”—Signal Akron