African-American poets write about nature from a perspective of working the land or engaging it personally. Poet Camille Dungy observes, “There is kind of this tradition to western nature poetry that is about objectification and idealization of the landscape. Kind of city boys writing about how lovely it would be to live in the country.” This isn’t how African-American poets think of the land as shown in 400 years of writing. (via Books, Inq.)