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Terrain.org Issue No. 28 Now Live!

Theme: Image

Issue No. 28 features an interactive mix of literary and technical contributions, including the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction winners of our 2nd Annual Contest; our second image-filled online poetry chapbook; a new column by Elizabeth Dodd; a hypertext narrative gallery on art and the Russian landscape; and much more:

Editorials

• Guest Editorial: “Defining the City: On Being and Becoming” by Scott Doyon, Principal, PlaceMakers
• Almanac: “Red Buffalo, Black Butterflies” by Elizabeth Dodd
• Plein Air: “Home” by Deborah Fries
• Field Notes: “Casting Off, About, and Somewhere in Between” by Kathryn Miles
• Bull Hill: “The Picture of a Song Freezes the Music of Nature”by David Rothenberg, with audio
• A Stone’s Throw: “Geographies of the Interior” by Lauret Savoy

Interview

• “A Particular Species of Place-Making”
  Terrain.org Interviews Photographer Frank Gohlke, with Online Photo Gallery

To Know a Place

• “River Flying in Winter: The Sheyenne River” Essay and Audio by W. Scott Olsen, with Image Gallery of NOAA Aerial Photographs

UnSprawl Case Study

• Serenbe in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, by Megan Kimble

Essays

• “Faith in a Forgotten Place” by Julian Hoffman, with Audio and Image Gallery, 2011 Nonfiction Contest Winner
• “New Orleans, The Gulf Coast, 2010” by Catherine Schmitt, with Audio and Image Gallery, 2011 Nonfiction Contest Finalist
• “Hill of the Sacred Eagles” by Katie Fallon, 2011 Nonfiction Contest Finalist
    
• “The Fire This Time: Down the Charles River” by David Gessner
• “Pitanga” by Eleanor Stanford, with Image Gallery
• “Swimming Among Sharks: A Photo Essay” by Marie-Elizabeth Mali

Articles

• “Playground of the Autocrats: The Russian Empire and How Terrain Shapes Society” A Hypertext Narrative Gallery by Anne Bobroff-Hajal, with Audio
• “Under the Open Sky: Poems on the Land” by Pattiann Rogers
• “Sprawl Repair: From Sprawl to Complete Communities” by Galina Tachieva
• “Disc Image: Wham-O, Frisbees, and the Modern Age of Plastic” by Susan Freinkel

ARTerrain Gallery

• “Drawing on Images ~ Paintings” by Steve Perrault

Poetry

• Rebecca Dunham : One Poem in Seven Parts with Audio : 2011 Poetry Contest Winner
• Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé : One Poem with Audio : 2011 Poetry Contest Finalist
• Gretchen Primack : One Poem with Audio : 2011 Poetry Contest Finalist
   
• Jeremy Frey : Big Bang: An Online Chapbook with Reactive Drawings by Ten Artists + Audio
    
• Barbara Rockman : Two Poems
• Karen Holmberg : Three Poems with Audio
• Rob Carney : Three Poems with Audio
• Susanna Lang : Two Poems with Audio
• Stephen Massimilla : Two Poems with Audio
• Angie Macri : Two Poems with Audio
• Melita Schaum : One Poem with Audio
• R. T. Smith : Three Poems with Audio
• Hannah Fries : Two Poems with Audio
• James Gurley : Two Poems
• Peter Kline : Two Poems with Audio
• Susan Kelly-DeWitt : Two Poems with Audio

Fiction

• “Song of the Turkey Vulture” by GE Tallant, 2011 Fiction Contest Winner
• “Driveaway” by Erica Olsen, 2011 Fiction Contest Finalist
• “Controlled Burn” by K. L. Barron, 2011 Fiction Contest Finalist
• “Kenley's Watch” by Malka Davis, 2011 Fiction Contest Finalist
    
• “Diné Bikeyah (Navajo Reservation)” by Lorie Adair
• “Neighboring on the Air” by Caroline Patterson
• “Ditch Lilies” by Werner A. Low

Reviews

• “Redefining Terms, Reclaiming Place”: Oliver de la Paz reviews The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World, edited by Alison Hawthorn Deming and Lauret E. Savoy
• “Constructed Space as a Manifestation of Ideas”: Rafael Otto reviews Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption, and the Welfare State, edited by Helena Mattsson & Sven-Olov Wallenstein
• “A Symbiosis of Poem and Painting”: Derek Sheffield reviews God, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World, by Rebecca Foust and Lorna Stevens
• “Delivering the News”: Andrew C. Gottlieb reviews Story Problems: Poems, by Rob Carney
• “Bird Conservation in the 21st Century”: Tom Leskiw reviews The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation, by Daniel J. Lebbin, Michael J. Parr, and George H. Fenwick

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Call for Submissions: "Migration"

Submit at www.terrain.org/submit by February 1, 2012
Issue No. 29, "Migration," publishes on April 1, 2012. The submission period closes February 1, and we are seeking articles, poetry, essays, fiction, and reviews. Other upcoming themes are "Ruin and Renewal" and "Craft," and we'll gladly consider submissions for those issues, as well. View submission guidelines or access our online submission tool.

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