desert southwest Archives • Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments

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...

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: The Poem "Big Bend" by Michael Hettich

Letter to America
by Michael Hettich

June 5, 2018

Letter to America, Poetry

Click button above to hear Michael Hettich read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Big Bend Driving thr... 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...

Four Poems
by Luis Montaño

November 1, 2015

Poetry

Click button above to play audio for these poems, or click here to download all poems in .mp3 format. Walking South Me... Read More...

One Poem
by Natalie Young

May 9, 2011

Issue 27, Poetry

Click button above to hear Natalie Young read this poem, or click here to download in .mp3 format. Bird of War Today let’s talk a... Read More...

The Road to Crownpoint
by Kurt Caswell

March 17, 2010

Issue 25, Nonfiction

Rain fell softly across the windshield of my truck as I crossed the cattle guard at the school entrance and drove out the empty dirt road nort... Read More...

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