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Arctic Wayfinders:
Inuit Mental and Physical Maps
by Michael Engelhard

March 14, 2019

wayfinder 1) A sign, landmark, or other indicator used to assist people in navigating to a particular location. 2) A person navigating to a ... 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...

Letter to America
by Tina Kelley

July 31, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Guest Editorial Dear America, The world provides, so maybe my hike in the woods is a narrative, a lesson, a Language-of-Flowers bou... Read More...

French Flares
by Sharon Dolin

July 23, 2017

Nonfiction

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Watching the Tour de France from a roadside in Southwestern France, in the Midi-Pyrenées, I learn there’s a name for the cyclist who comes in ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Kim Stafford

December 29, 2016

Letter to America, Poetry

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Click button above to hear Kim Stafford read this poem, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. Dear America If y... Read More...

Letter to America
by Erin Coughlin Hollowell

December 28, 2016

Letter to America, Poetry

1

Click button above to hear Erin Coughlin Hollowell read this poem, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. Dea... Read More...

Letter to America
by Renata Golden

December 24, 2016

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Guest Editorial Listen, America— This is how it starts. First, there is the annoying problem of keeping the air conditioning cra... Read More...

Two Poems
by Rose McLarney

July 3, 2016

Poetry

3

Click button above to play audio for this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format.Motionless In photos of the Civil War—no acti... Read More...

Two Poems
by Michael Hettich

June 16, 2016

Poetry

1

Click button above to play audio for this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format.The Inner Life of Wind Feathers were plucked... Read More...

Spearbird
by Gary Budden

March 24, 2016

Fiction

The bridled was always my favourite, a white ring and slashed stripe giving the bird a bookish air, wise, like it was privy to some essential tr... Read More...

The Problem with Pretty Birds
by Andrew Furman

December 23, 2015

Nonfiction

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The problem with pretty birds is that they are so hard to ignore.There we were in our breakfast nook, my wife and I, assailing each other over o... Read More...

Of No Ground: Late Days in the
Country of Eighteen Tides
by Lawrence Lenhart

December 4, 2015

Contest, Nonfiction, To Know a Place

Winner : Terrain.org 6th Annual Nonfiction Contest Selected by Scott Russell Sanders Click button above to play audio for this essay, or c... Read More...

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