Three Hearts

Three Hearts: An Anthology of Cephalopod Poetry features the lyrical work of 129contributors including poems prose poems art and more inspired by theOctopus Squid Cuttlefish Chambered Nautilus Ammonite and Nautiloids.. This core-sample of contemporary cephalopod-inspired writing reflects the varietyof ways cephalopods intersect with our human lives and enter our creative innerworlds. The poems range in tone and style: heartbreaking strange reverent funnyinspired by facts steeped in the personal. Some poems feature speakers longing tobe a cephalopod or take on a first-person perspective: human mirror neurons firingempathetically like a squid’s reflective iridophores. Many of the narrative piecesfocus on a meaningful encounter between a human and a cephalopod. All over theworld in liminal spaces between earth air and sea—on the shore by a tidepool ona dock on a boat while swimming while diving in an aquarium in a lab—so manyhuman beings are having a moment with a cephalopod which gives me some hopefor humanity.