“It’s like the internet made out of a tree.”
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Michael Leong's most recent books are Dear Vase Already Shattered Against the Fragile Floor (Black Square Editions, 2025) and Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2020). He is Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College.
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Hehe. Someday I hope someone quantifies the amount of nonrenewable resources burned each month to provide the electricity that powers the internet, assuming that’s even possible to calculate.
Agreed, A.D.!
Thanks for this post, Michael.
I also wonder about the historical data–how many whales had to perish for people to read at night?
And thanks for the thanks, Jeff!