What’s in a Name
by Lauret Savoy
Give me a story, and I’ll give you one in return.
Anyone passing our yard might think the solitary child played with an imaginary friend. She... Read More...
Lawn Guilt
by Michael P. Branch
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Henry David Thoreau’... Read More...
Landscape // Bisected:
American Railroads // A Photo Essay
by John Sanderson
The railroad today is not what it was imagined to be at the height of its reach across the American landscape. In 1915, over 250,000 track mil... Read More...
Letter to a Young Farmer
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Most of the farmers I’ve ever known—and all of the farmers I’ve ever known well—were family members: grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins. In ... Read More...
What the Hawk Sees
by Kirk Wisland
The jangle of breaking glass shatters the Sunday Houston calm, a commotion reminiscent of errant teenage baseballs wreaking neighbor... Read More...
The Fursuit of Happiness
by Meg Brown
Finalist : Terrain.org 7th Annual Contest in Nonfiction
A clot of cars forms on Penn Avenue just outside the David L. Lawrenc... Read More...
How Wind Works
by Megan Kimble
On our first evening at the end of the world, my dad decides he forgot to pack his rain pants. The weather at the end of the world is erratic.... Read More...
Swarm
by Lee Ann Roripaugh
1. A Knot of Snakes
Swarm sounds like warm with the serpentine arabesque of a hiss spiraling around the word. Like the heat-sleepy tangled kn... Read More...
Crosscut
by Tim Lydon
I am cutting firewood near my home in northwest Montana when my old chainsaw, plagued by various ailments, finally sputters and dies. In sudde... Read More...
Geography of the Self
by Catherine Mauk
Winner : Terrain.org 7th Annual Nonfiction Contest
Selected by Lauret Savoy
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Life After Life
by DJ Lee
Finalist : Terrain.org 7th Annual Contest in Nonfiction
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My Present Is Not Your Tombstone:
Love and Loss in Utah’s Canyon Country
by Lauren McCrady
Most of what I write about in this book is already gone or going under fast. This is not a travel guide but an elegy. A memorial. You’re holdi... Read More...
