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Issue No. 24, Borders & Bridges, now live!

  
 
Terrain.org Issue No. 24 Launch & Reading

Please join us for Terrain.org's first-ever public issue launch and reading:

8 p.m., Thursday, September 24, 2009
The University of Arizona Poetry Center
Issue introduction by editor Simmons Buntin, followed by readings by David Rothenberg (with music), Pamela Uschuk, Christopher Cokinos, and Deborah Fries. Book sales/signing and refreshments follow.

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Fall/Winter 2009 Issue Now Online

Issue No. 24 — Borders & Bridges — features a rich mix of contributions:

Columns

• Guest Editorial: “Solar is the Bridge to Our Future” by U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona's 8th Congressional District
• Simmons B. Buntin tracks the journey of his neighbor's bird
• Deborah Fries maps Mary Ann Armstrong
• David Rothenberg takes the road that must be taken (with image gallery)
• Lauret Savoy shares the view from Point Sublime

Interview

• Terrain.org interviews poet A. R. Ammons (1926-2001)

Poetry

• Poetry features: Borderland Translations: Tedi Lopéz Mills, translated by Wendy Burk (poems in English and Spanish
  with audio) and God, Seed: Online chapbook of poetry and
  images by Rebecca Foust and Lorna Stevens (with audio)
• Other poetry with audio by Pamela Uschuk, Jessica Weintraub,
  Polly Brown, Linda Parsons Marion, Jenn Blair, Laura Sobbot
  Ross, J. P. Dancing Bear, Beth Winegarner, Peter Huggins,
  Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, George Moore, Eva Hooker,
  Scott Edward Anderson, Alison Hawthorne Deming, William
  Keener, Brett Foster, Thorpe Moeckel, Joe Wilkins, and Sue Swartz

Essays

• “Night at the World’s Largest Atomic Cannon” by Christopher Cokinos, with audio
• “Body Exposed in the Golden Wind” by Florence Caplow
• “Positioning” by J. David Bell
• “Lee’s Ferry” by Ben Quick
• “Mustering the Sky” by Mark Tredinnick
  

UnSprawl Case Study

• Agritopia in Gilbert, Arizona — Crafted with a sort of evangelical "New Ruralism," the 166-acre Agritopia neighborhood east of Phoenix mixes gardens, pastures, orchards, restaurants, lush trails, and more with historically inspired homes designed to bring neighbors together.

Fiction

• “The Hank Williams Dialogues” by Andrew Wingfield
• “The Garden” by Jaren Watson
• “Stones” by Jeffrey Stevenson

Articles

• “To Wit, to Woo: The Silence of Owls” by Kathryn Miles
• “Ken Wu and the Fight for Canada’s Remaining Pacific Coast Old-Growth,” with online slideshow, by Joan Maloof and Rick Maloof
• “A Hole in Time” by John Lane
• “A Region of Wounds: Severing the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” by Tom Leskiw

ARTerrain Gallery

• Four series of impromptu sculptures-in-the-wild and studio sculptures by R. L. Croft

Reviews of...

• A Conservationist Manifesto by Scott Russell Sanders
• The Trouble with Black Boys and Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education by Pedro A. Noguera
• Unexpected Light, poems by C. E. Chaffin
• Crazy Love: New Poems by Pamela Uschuk

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New Issue Features

With the launch of Issue No. 24, we are pleased to announce a few new features, as well as remind you of other, existing helpful tools:

• Comment on Contributions — readers can now comment on new contributions (bottom of page), encouraging a dialogue well after issue launch
• Issue in PDF Format — Each new issue of Terrain.org is also available in PDF format
• Contributor Index — Find Terrain.org
  contributions by author/artist name
• Full Online Archives — Each issue of Terrain.org
  is fully archived
• Online Submission Tool — Submit and track
  your submissions through our online submission
  tool (submission period opens again October 1)
• Facebook Group — Catch up with Terrain.org on
  our Facebook page: join our group!