Eric Magrane, a poet/geographer from NMSU, put together a killer project in the form of Spiral Orb 15. I encourage you to check out how he designed the online experience of the journal (it doesn’t rely on graphics and yet it holds me). For Spiral Orb, each writer was assigned a species found in the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in Southern New Mexico.
I wrote a poem to my favorite fern. When I found out my fern was called the Fairy Sword Fern, I thought I was getting lucky. The speaker in the poem struggles with aging and marriage, and when he looks to the fern he is envious and this leads to anger.
Magrane put together a spirited reading where I got to perform my fern poem and hear top-notch poems about some of my favorite species like the ocotillo and the phainopepla. Here is the flyer for the reading that already happened, you know, for your records: 
Tim Staley, poet 