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Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry):
Living on Osprey Time: Journaling
by David Gessner

April 30, 2020

Currents, Video, Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry)

Nature Writing During the Quarantine https://youtu.be/1hNNS4T2QU8 Since this is a class about Thoreau (sort of) it is fitting that this four... Read More...

Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry):
On Routine
by David Gessner

April 23, 2020

Currents, Video, Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry)

Nature Writing During the Quarantine https://youtu.be/6kTy8OYjBUY Welcome to week three of Nature Writing during the Quarantine. I must admi... Read More...

Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry):
Learn the One Thing
by David Gessner

April 16, 2020

Currents, Video, Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry)

Nature Writing During the Quarantine https://youtu.be/FVeQQrunBtM Welcome to week two of Nature Writing during the Quarantine. Today I take ... Read More...

Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry):
What Is My Authentic Self?
by David Gessner

April 9, 2020

Currents, Video, Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry)

Lectures and Prompts from the Carolina Coast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hseCVDGYig Like many teachers, I have recently converted my cl... Read More...

Dear America Anthology Now Available!

February 26, 2020

News

We are delighted to announce the publication of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, edited by Terrain.org editors Simmons... Read More...

Review: Fracture — Essays, Poems + Stories
on Fracking in America

March 31, 2017

Reviews + Reads

Melissa Matthewson reviews Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America, edited by Taylor Brorby and Stefanie Brook Trout Ice ... Read More...

Biomimicry, Loss, and Building Community:
An Interview with Margo Farnsworth

January 29, 2017

Interviews

Interview by Sarah Boon About Margo Farnsworth Margo Farnsworth. Image courtesy Biomimicry Institute. Missouri-based natur... Read More...

Making a Name: Wallace Stegner
by David Gessner

April 6, 2015

Nonfiction

Here are Wallace Stegner’s words upon deciding to leave his papers at the University of Utah, rather than at Stanford: “Any scholar who has to g... Read More...

Edward Abbey at Havasu
by David Gessner

March 30, 2015

Nonfiction

Wallace Stegner and Ed Abbey’s utopias were different.Stegner’s dream was of a western community where good people worked together toward a comm... Read More...

Review: Leading Us to the Real

June 25, 2014

Reviews + Reads

Tom Leskiw reviews Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocrit... Read More...

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