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ECOPOETICS — [Noun] The study or practice of poetic forms and techniques that engage with ecological themes and environmental consciousness. From eco- (derived from Greek oikos, "household" or "environment") + poetics (from Greek poïesis, "making" or "creating"), it is the art of crafting language as both witness and intervention. Unlike "ecocriticism" (which dissects texts for environmental meaning) or "nature poetry" (which often romanticizes the untouched wild), ecopoetics wields form as activism—line breaks that mimic erosion, stanzas shaped like watersheds, or silence where species have vanished. It is the staggered line break mimicking a river’s meander, the erasure poem where words vanish like extinct species, or the concrete poem shaped like a melting glacier. A poem, too, can be an ecosystem: fragile, interdependent, and humming with the quiet urgency of survival.