In This Issue • Winter/Spring 2008 issue of Terrain.org launches • Terrain.org 10th Anniversary Reading and AWP Conference in New York City

   
  
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Issue No. 21, Islands & Archipelagos, now live!

  
Winter/Spring 2008 Issue Now Online

Issue No. 21 — Islands & Archipelagos — features a rich mix of contributions:

Columns

• Guest Editorial: “Restoring Abundant Oceans” by Andrew Sharpless, Oceana
• Simmons B. Buntin scribes a portrait of Fernando at Bahía de Loreto
• David Rothenberg plays clarinet to humpback whales off Hawaii
• Deborah Fries recounts the Rutherford Island life of artist Ellen Vincent

Interview

• Terrain.org interviews author David Quammen

Poetry

• Poetry by Susan F. Benjamin, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, J.D. Schraffenberger, Margarita Engle, Eric Paul Shaffer, Wendy Burk, Scott T. Starbuck, Paul Fisher, Yvonne Carpenter, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, and Jane Levin

Essays

• "Searching within the Archipelago" by Steve Kahn, with photos by John Hohl
• "St. Francis and the Isle of Foula" by Lynne Shapiro
• "Navajo Women: Doorway Between Traditional and Modern Life" by Betty Reid, with photos by Kenji Kawano
• "Land and Money" by William R. Stimson
• "My Farmhouse in Japan: A Breakfast to Remember" by John Roderick
  

UnSprawl Case Study

• The Villages of Loreto Bay in Baja California Sur — an 8,000-acre new urbanist project that strives to be North America’s largest sustainable resort development; it will include village neighborhoods constructed in nine phases along the Sea of Cortés

Fiction

• "The Third Way" by Tamara Kaye Sellman
• "Pelicans" by Julian Hoffman
• "Her Best Interests" by Janet Yung
• "The Way Things Fall" by Richard Denoncourt

Articles

• "Rice Island: Bali and the Cultivation of Tradition — A Narrative Slideshow" by Colin Donohue
• "Sky Islands of North America: A Globally Unique and Threatened Inland Archipelago" by Matt Skroch
• "No Community is an Island: Tributary and the Young & the Restless" by Rick Mildner and Brian Canin
• "Tourism Takes the Bird: Are Proposed Changes to Four Seasons Development Enough to Protect the Rare Grenada Dove?" by Dr. George Wallace
• "Ocean Acidification: A Greater Threat than Global Warming or Overfishing?" by Dr. William G.C. Burns

ARTerrain Gallery

• Ten natural light photographs from Floridian Joel B. McEachern

Reviews

• Deborah Fries reviews Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007, edited by Jessie Lendennie
• Simmons B. Buntin reviews Phantom Limb: Essays by Theresa Kishkan
• Stephanie Eve Boone reviews Nature Cure: A Story of Depression and Healing by Richard Mabey
• Terrain.org reviews Planet Ocean: Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm, by Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp

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Terrain.org 10th Anniversary Reading and AWP Conference in New York City

Mark your calendars now for Terrain.org's 10th Anniversary Reading, featuring 13 award-winning poets, essays, and fiction writers:

Thursday, January 31, 2008
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Cornelia Street Café
New York City, N.Y.

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And if you're at the annual AWP Conference also in New York City from January 31 - February 2, join Terrain.org staff and contributors at Table #480!