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    • Letter to America
      by Kim Heacox

      May 20, 2020
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      Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry):
      Living on Osprey Time: Journaling
      by David Gessner

      April 30, 2020
    • Painting of a blue jay

      Old Roads, New Stories:
      Why We Have Blue Jays
      by Rob Carney

      April 28, 2020
    • Vintage desk and typewriter

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

      April 23, 2020
    • Wolf howling and full moon

      Letter to America
      by Deborah Thompson

      April 22, 2020
      2
    • Osprey

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

      April 16, 2020
    • Walkway over the dunes at a beach

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

      April 9, 2020
      1
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    • Letter to America
      by Lois P. Jones

      May 25, 2020
      Letter to America, Poetry
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      One Poem
      by Elizabeth Jacobson

      May 18, 2020
      1

    • Letter to America
      by Traci Brimhall

      May 15, 2020
      1
    • Fountain of the Fallen Angel in Retiro Park

      Two Poems
      by Sharon Dolin

      May 13, 2020

    • One Poem
      by Beth Paulson

      May 8, 2020
      1

    • Letter to America
      by Alison Hawthorne Deming

      May 4, 2020
    • Sunrise over the Snake River

      Two Poems
      by Dennis Held

      May 1, 2020
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    • Slash pine needles

      Slashed
      by Andrew Furman

      May 11, 2020
      Nonfiction, To Know a Place
      1
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      Prose, Photos + Videos
      by Gretchen VanWormer

      May 6, 2020

    • The Wandering Glider (Pantela flavescens)
      by Brian Turner

      April 27, 2020
      1
    • Maple syrup buckets in snowy woods

      Maple Syrup Season
      by Kristen Munson

      April 13, 2020
    • Patio with table and chairs

      Death in the Neighborhood
      by Désirée Zamorano

      April 3, 2020
      3

    • Groves of Old Knowing
      by Julian Hoffman

      March 27, 2020
    • Afternoon light on empty fitness center

      Pizza Night on Planet Fitness
      by John T. Price

      March 23, 2020
      1
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      by Amy Barker

      May 22, 2020
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      by Mateusz Tokarski

      April 29, 2020

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      by Kelly K. Ferguson

      March 15, 2020
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      The Night of the Day of the Dead
      by Michael McGuire

      February 13, 2020
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      Whale Watcher
      by John Colman Wood

      February 4, 2020
    • Louisiana coast at sunset

      Out Here, Like This
      by Weldon Ryckman

      January 31, 2020
    • Until the Seas Rise, by Anita Felicelli

      Until the Seas Rise
      by Anita Felicelli

      November 6, 2019
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      Not Otherwise Specified:
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      April 19, 2020
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      Cross Country:
      Julie Swarstad Johnson and
      Patricia Colleen Murphy in Conversation

      March 12, 2020
    • Women Writers in the Wild: Lilace Mellin Guignard and Suzanne Roberts in Conversation

      Women Writers in the Wild:
      Lilace Mellin Guignard and
      Suzanne Roberts in Conversation

      December 13, 2019
      2
    • A Reservoir for Our Spirits: Melissa L. Sevigny Interviews Terry Tempest Williams

      A Reservoir for Our Spirits:
      An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams

      October 30, 2019
      1
    • Taken in by a Wild Bird: Nancy Campbell Interviews Tim Dee

      Taken in by a Wild Bird:
      An Interview with Tim Dee

      September 1, 2019
    • A Wildness in Design: Melissa Sevigny Interviews Nicole Walker

      A Wildness in the Design:
      An Interview with Nicole Walker

      June 13, 2019

    • Questions I Dare Ask:
      An Interview with Amy Irvine

      March 10, 2019
  • Reviews + Reads
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      May 19, 2020
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      Review:
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      April 17, 2020
    • Columbia River at sunrise

      Review:
      Brian Doyle’s One Long River of Song

      April 1, 2020
      2
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      Review:
      Cloudbursts and The Longest Silence

      February 24, 2020

    • Review:
      The Night’s Magician:
      Poems about the Moon

      January 24, 2020

    • Imagine the Loss of Something Very Large:
      A Review of Losing Miami, Poems

      December 28, 2019
    • Review: Toi Derricotte's "I" New and Selected Poems

      Review:
      Toi Derricotte’s “I”
      New and Selected Poems

      December 2, 2019
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    • Nature Morte: Birdworks
      By Carol Eckert

      April 21, 2020
      ARTerrain
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    • Ice Visions: Photographs by Erik Hoffner

      Ice Visions: Photographs
      By Erik Hoffner

      January 3, 2020
    • Atlantic City: Photographs by Brian Rose

      Atlantic City: Photographs
      By Brian Rose

      October 6, 2019
    • Outside of Time | Forest Landscapes by David Paul Bayles

      Outside of Time | Forest Landscapes
      By David Paul Bayles

      May 28, 2019
    • Dams, Heroic and Doomed: Paintings by Judith Belzer

      Dams, Heroic and Doomed:
      Paintings by Judith Belzer

      February 11, 2019
    • Organic Structures: Fiber Art by Charlotte Bird

      Organic Structures:
      Fiber Art by Charlotte Bird

      October 19, 2018
    • Time-Binding: Installations and Drawings by Sarah Hardesty

      Time-Binding:
      Installations and Drawings
      by Sarah Hardesty

      June 11, 2018
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    • Unsprawl:
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      Minneapolis, Minnesota

      July 9, 2019
      To Know a Place, Unsprawl
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      Unsprawl:
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      Tucson, Arizona

      April 14, 2019
    • Unsprawl: Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve, Maryland, by Claudia Kousoulas

      Unsprawl:
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      Montgomery County, Maryland

      December 13, 2018

    • Canberra: A Good Sheep Station Ruined
      by Catherine Mauk

      May 25, 2017

    • The Retail Landscape:
      A Photography Project by Drew Harty

      November 3, 2016

    • Sustainable Chattanooga 2.0
      by Ernest J. Yanarella + Robert W. Lancaster

      September 18, 2016

    • The Village Place Concept
      in Pinehurst, North Carolina

      August 30, 2015
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Beauty to Seduce, Beauty to Preserve: Creating the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area, by Kevin Gorman

Beauty to Seduce, Beauty to Preserve:
Creating the Columbia Gorge
National Scenic Area
by Kevin Gorman

October 28, 2019
Currents, Guest Editorial
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  The Columbia River Gorge is the only place in the world where a mighty river crashes through the entirety of a mountain range.   We go... Read More...

One Poem
by Kevin Miller

October 26, 2019
Poetry
1
  Click button above to hear Kevin Miller read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Response to Casey Fuller’s Ess... Read More...
Old Roads, New Stories: Truth > News, by Rob Carney

Old Roads, New Stories:
Truth > The News
by Rob Carney

June 16, 2019
Currents, Old Roads, New Stories
  A Literary Series Click button above to hear Rob Carney read this edition of Old Roads, New Stories, or click here to download the column i... Read More...
Conservation in Verse

Terrain.org and Friends of Columbia Gorge Host Conservation in Verse, Featuring Jane Hirshfield and Kim Stafford

January 28, 2019
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Conservation in Verse: Authors, Artists & Activists on Protecting the Landscapes We Love Literature, photography and art have lon... Read More...

Letter to America
by Seth Michael White

June 2, 2017
Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America
  Prelude to Catherine Creek   September 3, 2015 Union County, Oregon Three days after my mother passed, I dreamt death was a countr... Read More...

Letter to America
by Mitchell Thomashow

December 14, 2016
Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America
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Dear Rain
by Nicole Walker

August 9, 2016
Nonfiction
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You’ll Never Walk Alone: Sports and the Urban Neighborhood
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February 9, 2014
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