Drew Dellinger

Drew Dellinger is a poet, teacher, writer and speaker who has inspired minds and hearts around the world, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology and compassion. He is also a consultant, publisher, and founder of Planetize the Movement Press. Dellinger's book of poems, love letter to the milky way has thousands of devoted readers on five continents.

His work has appeared in films, books, anthologies and magazines--from The New York Times magazine to YES!, Tikkun, Kosmos, and others. Dellinger co-wrote the documentary film, "The Awakening Universe," which premiered at the United Nations. In 1997 Dellinger received Common Boundary magazine's national Green Dove Award. Dellinger has taught at Prescott College, Naropa University--Oakland, Esalen Institute, Sophia Center and John F. Kennedy University, where he was Director of the Program in Social Ecology. He studied cosmology and ecological thought with Thomas Berry for twenty years, and is currently finishing his doctoral dissertation on Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Berry, and the connections between ecology, justice and cosmology.