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In Love With Our Capacity for Flabbergastments:
An Interview with Ross Gay

By Derek Sheffield

Stone steps and bushes in the afternoon light

Improvised Pocket Parks

An Excerpt of The Book of (More) Delights
by Ross Gay

Sheep, misty morning

Currents Old Roads, New Stories

Chocolate, Coffee, Sheep, and Maps

By Rob Carney

Mountains and clouds illustration

Sowell Emerging Writers Prize

$1,000 PRIZE AND PUBLICATION BY TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR A POETRY MANUSCRIPT

Ongoing and limited series, editorials, and perspective.

Letters to America

Letter to America by Rashna Wadia

One Poem

A Life of Science

Airplane with contrail

Science in the Sky

By Kira Zeider

Lookout: Wildfire

Wildfire in forest with orange sky

Four Poems by Rachel Richardson

Guest Editorials

Poems and Gardens as Kind Companions

By Tess Taylor

View the Latest in Other Currents Series

Sheep, misty morning

Chocolate, Coffee, Sheep, and Maps

Old-fashioned pen on paper with flower petals

Love Poems as Built Environments

Typesetting blocks

Sadness as a Natural Environment

Old sailing ship in fog

Fighting Words

Map

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ARTerrain Galleries

Land in Formation: Drawings

By Nicola López

My Camera at the Head of Sinbad, San Rafael Swell, Utah 5/22/93, by Mark Klett

From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor
of Barry Lopez

Curated by Toby Jurovics

Solomon's Nectar: Painting by Bethann Parker

Appalachian Narratives: Dreamscapes

By Bethann Parker

Painting with helicopter

Pyrometric: Telling Stories with Fire

By Amiko Matsuo + Brad Monsma

Unsprawl Case Studies

Downtown Philadelphia

Green City, Clean Waters

Philadelphia’s 25-Year Plan
for Stormwater Management

Sweetwater Spectrum Community

Sonoma, California

Mosaic District common area

The Mosaic District

Merrifield, Virginia

Summer sunrise at Nachusa Grasslands

Restoration, Nachusa Style

Nachusa Grasslands, Illinois

Reviews

Bald eagles

Wilted Wings:
A Hunter’s Fight for Eagles

Review by Noah Davis

Montana valley

The Complicated West
of Christine Byl’s Lookout

Review by Jessica E. Johnson

Blue jay

Slow Birding

Review by Gregory Nobles

Lee's Ferry

The Wilding of
Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter:
Melissa L. Sevigny’s
Brave the Wild River

Review by Geri Lipschultz

Soundscapes Podcast

Fence with flowers in morning light

Staying Power

Soundscapes Episode 8
Curated by Miranda Perrone

Okefenokee Swamp

Wildness: Life, or Death?

Soundscapes Episode 7
Curated by Miranda Perrone

Soft silhouette of woman with early morning vista

More Than Alone

Soundscapes Episode 6
Curated by Miranda Perrone

The view from atop Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania

Love Across Time

Soundscapes Episode 5
Curated by Miranda Perrone

Reviews + Recommended Reads

Bald eagles

Wilted Wings:
A Hunter’s Fight for Eagles

Review by Noah Davis

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Orcas in sunlit water

Terrain.org Essay Wins 2023 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award

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