This website is host to an interdisciplinary ecology of ideas and thought-experiments which are (like the assemblage of wild things in any ecology) interrelated.  It can be approached from many directions. 

as a poet, even a formalist poet, open to considering levels of form beyond the poem and the individual oeuvre, willing to contemplate poetry as an aspect of human social behavior, in hopes of finding ways to reverse the marginalization of poetry in contemporary culture and restore the ancient dignity of bardcraft.  (Start at “The Hexagon,” then “Essays on Macropoetics,” And check out the page on The Deronda Review, a paper magazine in the spirit of this forum.)

to it as one interested in ecosophy, attracted by the Gaia hypothesis yet aware that a sound ecology depends ultimately on human social organization and that poetry is the first and ultimate “deep ecology.”

as one who dreams of social justice and a global culture that is life-sustaining and predicated on human dignity,
and who feels the need for new methods. (Start at “The Consciousness of Earth.”)

as a Jew, especially a Jewish poet, concerned about
the future of Israel and Judaism and attracted to the Kabbalistic idea
of tikkun ha-olam.  Or as an American concerned about the future of
democracy.  (Start at “Kippat Binah.”)

as an active or inactive attorney who dreams of just
laws, of a well-ordered legal system, in the field of environmental law
particularly. (Start at “The Poets’ Law Institute.”)

as a humanist who believes that amid the achievements
of science, the humanities remain central to the human enterprise.
You may come to it as a literary scholar interested in intertextual
studies.

as a reader of Paul Celan, or of Gustav Landauer,
some of whose thoughts you will find echoed and continued  in the writings of the iste's proprietor, Esther Cameron. You may come to it as a person with a penchant for thought-experiments
and Utopian speculation and fantasy.  If you enjoyed Ursula Leguin’s The Dispossessed, consider entering this world!