I am proud to have a new poem, "Our Beholders," featured in Beyond Words, an international literary magazine. The poem was inspired by a discussion I had about Eco-studies in a graduate class I had at UNC-Charlotte. The poem was also inspired by the writings of Val Plumwood, who championed writers to write about nature in an active voice. "Our Beholders" is my response to three different ways nature reveals itself to us, rather than the other way around.