Guest Editorial Archives • Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments

Letter to America
by Scott Minar
with a Poem by Riad Saleh Hussein
translated by Saleh Razzouk

November 22, 2018

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Mortar Shells, Lunch, and Poetry Dear America, My friend Saleh Razzouk sits having lunch in his apartment in Aleppo. He may be worki... Read More...

Transforming Art into Action
at the University of the Parks
by Danielle Beazer Dubrasky

September 22, 2018

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Guest Editorial Southern Utah University, located in Cedar City, was recently designated the “University of the Parks” for its close ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Christopher Merrill

September 17, 2018

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Guest Editorial Dear America, On Memorial Day weekend I attend a forum in Nanjing that drew sinologists from around the world for di... Read More...

Letter to America
by Danielle Beazer Dubrasky

August 13, 2018

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Guest Editorial Dear America, Summer 1975—the end of my fifth grade year and the start of my family’s ritual of nightly barbecues o... Read More...

Letter to America
by Tina Kelley

July 31, 2018

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Guest Editorial Dear America, The world provides, so maybe my hike in the woods is a narrative, a lesson, a Language-of-Flowers bou... Read More...

Letter to America
by Lisa M. O’Neill

July 4, 2018

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Guest Editorial Dear America, Four years ago, I developed tinnitus. The name for the condition comes from the Latin, tinnire: ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Lawrence Lenhart

June 17, 2018

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Guest Editorial Dear Milo, It is possible to be too much in love with something. For example: the other day, I tossed you in the air... Read More...

Letter to America
by Rebecca Altman

June 8, 2018

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Click button above to hear Rebecca Altman read this letter, or click here to download the letter in .mp3 format. Everything is goin... Read More...

The Great Spirit of Inventiveness:
On the Writers & Artists as Activists Week
by Kelle Groom

June 4, 2018

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Guest Editorial After the presidential election, I was stunned and kept asking: What can we do? Alison Hawthorne Deming ... Read More...

Letter to America
by John Janovy, Jr.

May 11, 2018

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Guest Editorial Dear America, We as a nation are being drowned by a narrative of fear and anger that now drives policy ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Joni Tevis

April 29, 2018

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Guest Editorial Dear America, Some things I think about every day. Sandy Hook. Marjory Stoneman Douglas. I must find a ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Tim McNulty

April 4, 2018

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The Elwha: A River and a Vision Restored Dear America, More than 200 feet below me, the blue-gray rush of the Elwha River cut... Read More...