Agriculture and Environment

Take Note: Penn State Professors Blend Poetry And Photography In 'Shale Play'

WPSU | By Min Xian

Published September 14, 2018 at 4:19 PM EDT

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Poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and photojournalist Steven Rubin spent five years documenting Marcellus Shale drilling in Pennsylvania. The project became their new book, "Shale Play." ";s

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"Shale Play: Poems and Photographs From the Fracking Fields" is the creation of Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin.

Residents of Point Marion in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, at one of many region-wide Hands Across Our Land protests called to protect the land and communities from the unnecessary building of new natural gas infrastructure, such as pipelines.

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Residents of Point Marion at one of many region-wide "Hands Across Our Land" protests against what they saw as the unnecessary building of natural gas infrastructure, such as pipelines.

Steven Rubin / Shale Play

Poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and photojournalist Steven Rubin spent five years documenting Marcellus Shale drilling in Pennsylvania. The project became their new book, "Shale Play."

We talked to them about what they’ve witnessed and how they decided to blend poetry and photography.