We are pleased to announce the launch of Terrain.org’s 34th issue: Elemental. Issue 34 — Fall 2013 — includes a wonderful mix of literature, including the winners and finalists of our 4th Annual Contests in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction. With a guest editorial by Priscilla Long, an interview with earth scientist Fred Swanson, poetry by a dozen leading poets (including our first video poems), searing nonfiction and fiction, outstanding photography, and well-traveled columns, you’ll want to dive right in:
Columns
- Guest Editorial ~ Notes Composed in the Dark of Our Time
Priscilla Long, Author - A Stone’s Throw ~ Still an American Dilemma
Lauret Savoy, Terrain.org Editorial Board Member - Almanac ~ The World’s Lungs
Elizabeth Dodd, Terrain.org Editorial Board Member - Field Notes ~ Our Bodies, Our Terrains
Kathryn Miles, Terrain.org Editorial Board Member
To Know a Place
- Fall, or Falling
Nonfiction by Melissa Matthewson ~ with audio and gallery
4th Annual Nonfiction Contest Finalist
Interview
- Earth Scientist Fred Swanson
Interviewed by Andrew C. Gottlieb
ARTerrain Gallery
- Douglas A. Yates : Wildland Calligraphy
Photography
Poetry
- Rob Carney : Seven Pages from The Book of Sharks
4th Annual Poetry Contest Winner, judged by John Daniel ~ with audio - Janie Elizabeth Miller : Four Poems
4th Annual Poetry Content Finalist ~ with audio - Mark McCaig : Two Poems
4th Annual Poetry Content Finalist ~ with audio - Cal Freeman : Two Poems
4th Annual Poetry Content Finalist ~ with audio - Robert Michael Pyle : Two Poems
- Karen Schubert : One Poem ~ with audio
- Adam Tavel : Two Poems
- Robin Chapman : One Poem ~ with audio
- Jeffrey Kingman : One Poem
- Suzanne Frischkorn : Two Poems
- Eric McHenry : One Poem ~ with audio
- Bill Yake : Three Video Poems
Nonfiction
- (Dis)Appearances
Nancy Geyer ~ with audio
4th Annual Nonfiction Contest Winner, judged by Kathryn Miles
- The Great Underground
Emily Wortman-Wunder ~ with audio
4th Annual Nonfiction Contest Finalist - Students of the Route
Jen Hirt ~ with audio
4th Annual Nonfiction Contest Finalist - The Future of Fire
Vanessa Gregory
Fiction
- The Water Cycle
Eloise Schultz ~ with audio
4th Annual Fiction Contest Winner, judged by Teague Bohlen
- Rare Offering
JoeAnn Hart ~ with audio
4th Annual Fiction Contest Finalist
Reviews
- Clay: A Novel by Melissa Harrison
Reviewed by Steve Himmer - Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods by Christine Byl
Reviewed by Kim Wyatt - Corpse Whale, Poems by dg nanouk okpik
Reviewed by Dorine Jennette - Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape by David Hinton
Reviewed by Andrew C. Gottlieb
Night sky and evergreens photo courtesy Shutterstock.
