Join Terrain.org for an online reading featuring award-winning writers Elizabeth Jacobson, Karen Babine, and Ian Ramsey. The reading will be followed by a Q&A.

Registration for this online event is required. Zoom hosting generously provided by the University of Arizona.

 
Monday, May 26, 2025
5 p.m. PT / 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET

Elizabeth Jacobson’s third collection of poems, There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral, is just out from Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. Her previous book, Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air, won the New Measure Poetry Prize, selected by Marianne Boruch (FVE/Parlor Press, 2019), and the 2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book. Her other books include Her Knees Pulled In (Tres Chicas Books, 2012), two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press and Everything Feels Recent When You’re Far Away, Poetry and Art from Santa Fe Youth During the Pandemic (2021), which she co-edited. Elizabeth was the fifth poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her community work has received ten consecutive grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, she is a reviews editor for Terrain.org, and she directs the poetry programs at Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts.

Karen Babine is the two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author of All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer (Milkweed Editions, 2019) and Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life (University of Minnesota, 2015. Her third book, The Allure of Elswhere: A Memoir of Going Solo, is out now from Milkweed Editions. She also edits Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and is the editor of the Assay anthology Beyond Truth and Fact: Innovations in the Craft of Creative Nonfiction, forthcoming in 2027 from Texas Review Press.  She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, where she is a UC Foundation Associate Professor of English.

Ian Ramsey is the author of Hackable Animal (Wayfarer Books), finalist for the Prism Climate Prize. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and featured in Terrain.org, Orion, High Desert Journal, and many other publications, as well as in collections like The Gift of Animals, Writing for Peace, and Maine Voices. Based in Maine, Ian is the founding director of the Kauffmann Program for Environmental Writing and Wilderness Exploration at North Yarmouth Academy, where he has taught environmental writing, expeditioning, neuroscience, creative entrepreneurship, and music for 26 years. A licensed Maine Guide, Ian holds the highest sea kayak leadership award in the world and has led trips and backcountry expeditions on four continents, with a special focus on Alaska.  He holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop, has been an artist-in-residence at the Mount St Helens Science Center and other locations, and frequently collaborates with climate scientists on field research.  Ian is a founding board member of Physiology First, a global non-profit that teaches students, families and educators how to manage anxiety, perform and learn better.