"A powerful journey of inspiration, love, care, and connection with the living waters of our communities--encouraging us to reflect on how we care for them and inspiring us to rise up against the harms and challenges they face from human interaction. Thomas's poems are challenging, uplifting, and heartwarming, and remind us that our streams and rivers are part of our community, to be respected and cared for."
--Maya van Rossum, author of The Green Amendment

"In River Bending, we are beckoned to join a journey of pools, currents, rapids, and switchbacks--an adventure in language worthy of the closest read and the joyous noise Johnson-Medland makes."
--Thomas Lynch, author of Bone Rosary