Twenty of the poets who offered their verses directly to the lake when we read irreplaceable on February 19th, 2022.

irreplaceable is a chorus of praise swelling with love for our Great Salt Lake. By some reports,1700 square miles would be the size of the fully restored lake; the lake bed is approximately 2200 square miles. At well over 2500 lines, the size of this poem is a prayer for Great Salt Lake's full restoration. We present this text as a polyphonic love-letter to our imperiled beloved.

Poetry is a call to pay attention and what we attend to grows. Although we know that even an epic poem cannot save the lake alone, we believe in poetry's power to transform a culture of apathy and disdain into one defined by reverence for life. By turning our hearts and faces toward the lake, we may also save ourselves.

There are over 400 voices in this poem. Our body of work is now a book. May the praise continue to flow! Please join us in community prayer on behalf of our hemispherically essential ecosystem.

Over a hundred folks read the first 1706 lines of the poem aloud to the lake as an offering to Great Salt Lake on February 19th, 2022 on Antelope Island. Thanks to John Meier and his team who are making a documentary about the movement to save Great Salt Lake, we have a recording: