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Issue No. 18, Garden Gate, now live!

  
Spring/Summer 2006 Issue Now Online

Issue No. 18—Garden Gate—features a rich mix of contributions:

Columns

• Guest Editorial by Storey Publishing Editor Carleen Madigan Perkins: "Giving Up the Garden"
• Simmons B. Buntin on the fallen spirit: a downed saguaro
• Todd Ziebarth is the constant anti-gardener, and doesn't like mowers, either
• David Rothenberg on ecophilosophist Arne Naess's alpine garden
• Catherine Cunningham presents the labor of her fruit

Interview

• Terrain.org interviews former governor and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt

Poetry

• Poetry by Suzanne Frischkorn, Brian Swann, Melissa S. Stein, Simmons B. Buntin, Patricia Smith Ranzoni, Donna J. Gelagotis
  Lee, Philip Fried, and Lois Beebe Hayna
• Drum Hadley: 21 poems, with artwork by Andrew Rush, excerpted
  from Voice of the Borderlands

Essays

• "If You Love It... Why Nature-Loving Gardeners Should Learn to Let Go" by
  Flora Cordis Johnson—on the remaking of residential landscapes
• "Working Wilderness: The Malpai Borderlands Group and the Future of the Western Range," an excerpt from the new book by Nathan F. Sayre
• "Greening Up the Slackers: In Search of the Gen-X Garden" by Scott Calhoun, who asks, Where are all the young, hip gardeners?
• "The Death and Life of an American Garden" by Barnet Schecter—a community
  garden is lost in New York City
• "War of the Roses" by Fleda Brown, who wages war in her own way on the wild roses choking out other flora
• "The Genius of Kaaterskill Falls" by John P. O'Grady—a retelling of a local legend of love's loss
• "Experiential Layers of the City" by Bruce F. Donnelly—how to truly look at and appreciate urban places

UnSprawl Case Study

• NorthWest Crossing in Bend, Oregon—a 486-acre, neotraditional development inspired by Bend's beloved older neighborhoods

Fiction

• "Shillington Lilies" by Deborah Fries
• "Precious" by Andrew Wingfield
• "Hunter's Point" by Martin Ott
• "Chicago on the Web" by Scott Spires
• "Fish Story" by Tiel Aisha Ansari

Articles

• "Cultivating Natural and Cultural Landscapes through Conservation Subdivision Design: A Narrative Slideshow" by Randall Arendt
• "America's First Rare Plant: The Franklin Tree" by Lucy Rowland
• "Sustainability Comes to the Canadian Prairie: Lessons and Caveats from the Town of Okotoks, Alberta" by Ernest J. Yanarella
• "Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants of the Desert Southwest"
  by Karen Hillson

ARTerrain Gallery

• Twelve native plant and animal photographs by Michael D. Weber

Reviews

• Simmons B. Buntin reviews Murder Ballads, poems by
  Jake Adam York
• Todd Ziebarth reviews Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes,
  by Lyle Gomes
• Terrain.org staff reviews Tracking Desire: A Journey after
  Swallow-tailed Kites, by Susan Cerulean

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Terrain.org Seeking Submissions
for Next Issue: The Music of It All

Terrain.org is seeking submissions of poetry, essays, articles, fiction, reviews, and artwork for Issue No. 19, The Music of It All, which will appear online September 10, 2006. Submissions due by August 1.

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