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A Wildness in Design: Melissa Sevigny Interviews Nicole Walker

A Wildness in the Design:
An Interview with Nicole Walker

June 13, 2019

Interview by Melissa Sevigny Introduction Photograph by Tangled Lilac Photography. Author and creative writing professor Nicole Walker... Read More...

Questions I Dare Ask:
An Interview with Amy Irvine

March 10, 2019

Interviews

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

The Last Time
Prose and Illustrations by Martha Park

January 27, 2019

Contest, Nonfiction

Finalist : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Nonfiction When we pulled up to the creek-side cabin we’d share for the next wee... Read More...

Blue Mountain: A Painted Essay
by Lena Moses-Schmitt

April 8, 2018

Nonfiction

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When I was twenty-three, I quit my job and ... Read More...

Review: The Inland Empire
in Photographs and Essays

August 18, 2017

Reviews + Reads

Erin Michaela Sweeney reviews Empire: Photographs and Essays, by Lewis deSoto Heydey Press | 2016 | ISBN: 978-1-... Read More...

Review: A Hunger for High Country

July 30, 2017

Reviews + Reads

Jennifer Ladino reviews A Hunger for High Country: One Woman's Journey to the Wild in Yellowstone Country, by Susan Marsh Oregon State Univer... Read More...

Two Poems
by Danielle Beazer Dubrasky

July 9, 2017

Poetry

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Click button above to hear Danielle Beazer Dubrasky read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Sepulveda Basin Refu... Read More...

Lawn Guilt
by Michael P. Branch

June 20, 2017

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

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Click button above to hear Michael Branch read this essay, or click here to download the essay in .mp3 format. Henry David Thoreau’... Read More...

Two Poems
by Juan Morales

June 17, 2017

Poetry

Click button above to hear Juan Morales read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Alone on the Oregon Trail ... Read More...

Geography of the Self
by Catherine Mauk

February 1, 2017

Contest, Nonfiction, To Know a Place

Winner : Terrain.org 7th Annual Nonfiction Contest Selected by Lauret Savoy Click button above to hear Catherine Mauk read thi... Read More...

Letter to America
by Joe Wilkins

December 25, 2016

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

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Guest Editorial: New Names Dear America, When I was a boy the fields reached all the way to the dry, sagebrush hills, and the hi... Read More...

My Present Is Not Your Tombstone:
Love and Loss in Utah’s Canyon Country
by Lauren McCrady

November 6, 2016

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

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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...

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