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A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
by Stephanie Anderson

March 18, 2019

I’m in western South Dakota, rolling across the prairie in a blue 1970s-era pickup truck, when I first see them. Buffalo—faraway brown dots on... Read More...

Two Pastorals
by Marvin Shackelford

March 5, 2019

Fiction

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Loose Pastoral Beech Hill, Tennessee 1. One of the guys Jana brought down from Culleoka walks off up the hill and comes back later ... Read More...

One Poem
by David Axelrod

February 26, 2019

Poetry

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Click button above to hear David Axelrod read this poem, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. Memory-Hoard I. Contrails... Read More...

In the Frying Pan
by Mary Alice Long

February 15, 2019

Fiction

Ernest sat at the top of the steps of their new porch, thinking to go looking through unpacked boxes for a hose and sprinkler. He watched an a... 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...

Out of Good Ground
by John Thomson

January 31, 2019

Contest, Fiction

Winner : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Fiction It’s November in Michigan. I’m traveling through the snow with my mother and... Read More...

Three Poems by Jane Lovel, Winner of the Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Poetry

Three Poems
by Jane Lovell

January 29, 2019

Contest, Poetry

Winner : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Poetry Click button above to hear Jane Lovell read this poem, or click here to dow... 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...

Caverns
by Kara Delemeester

January 25, 2019

Contest, Fiction

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Finalist : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Fiction It was Kathleen’s idea to come to the caverns. She’d heard about them on a... Read More...

Vax
by Alan Barstow

January 15, 2019

Contest, Fiction

Finalist : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Fiction Midmorning we came across a family of Ngoma herders making camp in a grove... 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...

Letter to America: Poem by Christopher Howell

Letter to America
by Christopher Howell

January 1, 2019

Letter to America, Poetry

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Implicit Simply the last one writes in gold on a pale blue cheek bone of sky above a hill. Gaunt cows in a field go on forgettin... Read More...

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