drew dellinger - planetize the movement

what people are saying about drew dellinger

"Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!"
    - Cornel West

"Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!"
    - Alice Walker

"The poetry of Drew Dellinger is in the tradition of Walt Whitman with his panoramic eroticism but it's amped up even higher with the electricity from hip hop and the unquenchable passion of a Martin Luther King Jr., and the cosmic serenity of an Albert Einstein. When you're in the mood to have a torch put to your soul, Drew's the man."
    - Brian Swimme, author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos

"These poems are alive, kinetic, wily, as in artful, witty, wonderful sonic blasts, messengers of transformation. I am grateful for this young and powerful voice among us."
    - Susan Griffin, author of Woman and Nature

"Drew Dellinger has the Gift."
    - Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind

"Drew Dellinger is a national treasure. His poems for global justice bring light to these leaden times, helping us to see and defend the beauty of our world. His spoken word performances are exquisite in their intelligence and artistry: Setting the political challenges we face within the grandeur of our unfolding universe, they ignite both our wonder and our will."
    - Joanna Macy, author of Coming Back to Life

"Drew Dellinger is mystic and prophet calling us to be the same and thus to be sane...again. He knows the stakes that our species is playing with at this perilous time in planetary and cultural history."
    - Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing

"There is both grandeur and intimacy in these poems of Drew Dellinger. We are children of the Milky Way, children of a mythic magical world wonderful beyond our dreams. Drew Dellinger brings us graciously into these experiences with the quiet yet insistent rhythms of his verse."
    - Thomas Berry, author of The Great Work and The Dream of the Earth

"Drew Dellinger is a master wordsmith who reframes the environmental movement in the vastness of cosmology."
    - Leonora Oppenheim, Treehugger blog, London, UK

"Thomas Berry insisted on the over-arching importance of spreading the epic version of the universe story as our new creation myth, and Thomas insisted that we couldn't leave this vital work of cultural therapy to scientists but must enlist the artists, musicians and poets. Well Drew Dellinger was among the first to answer this call and certainly among the most talented and effective. I can't speak highly enough of the quality of both the work and his delivery."
    - John Seed, Australia, rainforest activist and co-author of Thinking Like a Mountain

"Drew Dellinger is one of the most respected and admired performers in the field of deep ecology / awakening / planetary work."
    - Rob Hopkins, Founder of the Transition Town movement

"In a war-ravaged world, Drew Dellinger's poetry is a balm in Gilead. His unwavering commitment to truth telling and bearing witness is what the best of the prophetic tradition is made of. He is the poet laureate of the global democracy movement."
    - Reverend Osagyefo Sekou

"One of the important voices of the global justice movement."
    - YES! magazine

"Drew is the Earth's grapevine, the transcendent delivery man, the vocable giver, the dispatcher of the unremembered, the confabulating oath keeper, the stand-in for the intimate grief that holds us in thrall. His poems are bodies of light seen by startled new eyes and long after he speaks they weave the unconscious, stitching us to our collective and uncertain future."
    - Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest and The Ecology of Commerce

"One single word planted in the Mystery and Magic of the Cosmos can grow miracles and healing or destroy entire ecosystems of life. We are so fortunate that Drew Dellinger plants truth with such clarity, beauty, and power. Our world is a better place for his words and work in it."
    - Julia Butterfly Hill, activist and author of The Legacy of Luna

"Dellinger is an electrifying, cosmopoetic presence as he whirls through galaxies, cuts across time, spirals into subatomic structures, stops on a nanosecond, rhymes and listens. Listen--he's crossing M.L. King with Thomas Berry, Teilhard de Chardin with hip hop. His great-great-grandchildren speak to him in dreams that will make your heart stop."
    - China Galland, author of Love Cemetery, Unburying the Secret History of Slaves

(Statement by a Member of Congress to former Vice President Al Gore, during Gore's testimony at Congressional climate change hearings, April 24, 2009.) "I want to relate to your struggle a few moments ago to come up with the right words to define this moment. Because we're all talking and asking questions based on the concerns that our current constituents raise with us about this measure. And I wonder, what if the future generations had a voice? And if people living in our districts in 2080, or 2090, could speak to us now, what would they be saying? I'll give you one piece of poetry, actually, that I think brings it up pretty well, by a fellow named Drew Dellinger. He says, 'it's 3:23 in the morning/ and I'm awake/ because my great great grandchildren/ won't let me sleep/ my great great grandchildren/ ask me in dreams/ what did you do while the planet was plundered?/ what did you do when the earth was unraveling?'"
    - Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin

"Drew's poetry catapults us out of the sleep of conditionality. It is a clarion call that reawakens our primordial memory that we are made of the stuff of stars, along with our responsibility to care, ever so tenderly and passionately, for the cosmic majesty with which we have been entrusted."
    - Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation~Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential

"Drew Dellinger is one of the most inspired poets of his generation and a troubadour for all who seek a world of justice, generosity, compassion and peace."
    - Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor Tikkun and Chair, The Network of Spiritual Progressives

"Drew Dellinger is like a shooting star from some distant galaxy sent to help us hold a vision of hope and possibility during these times. His voice and his vision are prophetic."
    - Belvie Rooks, Co-Founder, Growing a Global Heart

"Thank you for the exceptional contribution you made to the development of the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium. It's hard to imagine the direction we would have taken and the end we would have arrived at had you not crossed our path however many months ago. It isn't just the information you shared with us about Thomas Berry's work; it's the way you have internalized it and woven it into your own soul that made it so potent, and in the end, caused us to revise the entire Symposium based on the principles he identified and that you shared so eloquently. Your work with the interviews was nothing short of inspired. In addition to helping us connect with the right people to use, your skill both in creating thoughtful questions and then engaging the interviewees was masterful. Drew, you have been a team player par excellence. It was a privilege and pleasure to work with you."
    - Bill Twist and Tracy Apple, The Pachamama Alliance and the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium

"Drew was so down to earth. He reached all the people here at the school. We had such a mix of audience and he reached them all--parents, teachers, clinicians, support staff and students of many ages...I think every single person went away with something. What a fabulous speaker! I loved it! It was so great that Drew was able to give something to everyone."
    - Sonia McDonald, Youth Talk and the Canadian Mental Health Association

"Drew Dellinger's well-known poem, 'hieroglyphic stairway,' has become an iconic work of art for the ecology and social justice movements."
    - Felicia Chavez, blogger

"It was beyond wonderful. Drew was phenomenal."
    - Workshop participant, Esalen 2010

"Went beyond my imagination! Drew brought a well-organized workshop, sharing his insanely gifted writing, immense world/literary knowledge and dedication to Thomas Berry and the topic of cosmology. This felt imperative to my journey toward full awareness...I loved putting words on paper, unleashing my closet writer!
    - Workshop participant, Esalen 2010

"Inspiring; eye opening. Drew has amazing command of a wide breadth of information."
    - Workshop participant, Esalen 2010

"Beautiful, thoughtful, info packed, historical and inspirational. I loved Drew's grasp of all the topics. Excellent workshop!!"
    - Workshop participant, Esalen 2010

"Drew is a wonderful leader; brilliant, approachable, funny. I learned a lot that will continue to ripple out."
    - Workshop participant, Esalen 2010

"Drew Dellinger just schooled me. He consulted on an upcoming major art commission I am debuting in the aquarium at California Academy of Sciences. He broke down and then synthesized the cosmological, physical and spiritual aspects of water in a voice that was at once warm, scholarly and divine. WHAT WHATTT!!!"
    - Jessica Tully, artist

"Holy Amazing Book, Drew! LOVED it more than any ever. Just ordered eight. I hope you have plenty in stock. You're going to need them."
    - Jenny Wagner, Ontario, Canada