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Back to the Garden
Prose, Photos + Videos
by Gretchen VanWormer

May 6, 2020

The garden is good at fulfilling the peculiar fantasy that language captures nature. Very Genesis. You practically get to name the animals. A... Read More...

Aerial view of creek, woods, and wetlands

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...

Whale Watcher
by John Colman Wood

February 4, 2020

Contest, Fiction

Finalist : Terrain.org 10th Annual Contest in Fiction On the morning of the second day, Bob saw a whale and her calf about a mi... Read More...

Finding Atlantis
by Beth Peterson

November 12, 2019

Nonfiction

39.7024° N, 44.2991° E Mount Ararat, Turkey When I was still a child, the first story I heard about a flood was the tale of Noah’s ark. Th... Read More...

At the Good School
by Anne Beatty

February 20, 2019

Nonfiction

A phalanx of white girls—long, shiny hair, post-orthodontic smiles, tiny skirts—greets anyone visiting the school where I teach. These near li... Read More...