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Questions I Dare Ask:
An Interview with Amy Irvine

March 10, 2019

Interview by Andrea Ross Introduction Amy Irvine. Photo courtesy Torrey House Press. Writer and teacher Amy Irvine is the author of ... Read More...

Letting Go of Thoreau:
Renewing America’s Legacy
by Daniel Bullen

February 28, 2019

Nonfiction

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Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday has come and gone, but having read all the homages, it’s clear that our critiques of his hypocrisy haven’... Read More...

At the Good School
by Anne Beatty

February 20, 2019

Nonfiction

A phalanx of white girls—long, shiny hair, post-orthodontic smiles, tiny skirts—greets anyone visiting the school where I teach. These near li... Read More...

Letter to America
by Colleen J. McElroy

February 18, 2019

Letter to America, Poetry

Too Long in the Wind that morning you awoke to wrinkled wrists skin not smooth as the night before in the light too muted for morn... Read More...

Letter to America
by Elizabeth Dodd

February 12, 2019

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Guest Editorial: Witness the Present Mexican War Dear America, Henry David Thoreau has lived in my head all my adult life, a... Read More...

Dams, Heroic and Doomed:
Paintings by Judith Belzer

February 11, 2019

ARTerrain

Skip to Galleries Introduction by Judith Belzer It’s no accident that sometime around the 2016 elections I began to think about dams... Read More...

Auricle Canyon
by Will Cordeiro

February 7, 2019

Nonfiction

Eight-thousand feet up in the Abajo Mountains of southeast Utah, the late September air gave a wicked chill. I bundled on my blue wool-lined j... Read More...

Letter to America
by Roy Bentley

February 5, 2019

Letter to America, Poetry

Click button above to hear Roy Bentley read this poem, or download the poem in .mp3 format. The Last Drive-In in Newark, Ohio Closes ... Read More...

The Violence of the Given World
by Sarah M. Wells

February 3, 2019

Contest, Nonfiction

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Winner : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Nonfiction Click button above to listen to Sarah M. Wells read this essay, or click here... Read More...

Old Roads, New Stories:
Poems as Rakes
by Rob Carney

January 19, 2019

Currents, Old Roads, New Stories

A Literary Series So there’s this joke I heard once—I forget where—that goes something like this: A Dean of Humanities ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Tod Marshall

January 8, 2019

Letter to America, Poetry

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Click button above to hear Tod Marshall read this poem, or download the poem in .mp3 format. Letter to America If a heron stood sentinel... Read More...

Thomas Jefferson’s Monster
by B.J. Hollars

January 6, 2019

Nonfiction

In April of 1796—nearly three years after resigning his post as Secretary of State—Thomas Jefferson received an unexpected package from Colone... Read More...

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