Five Poems
by Ted Kooser
Monarch Butterfly
For a creature with stained glass windows
for wings, she’s wonderfully light on her feet,
prancing from blossom t... Read More...
A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
by Stephanie Anderson
I’m in western South Dakota, rolling across the prairie in a blue 1970s-era pickup truck, when I first see them. Buffalo—faraway brown dots on... Read More...
Two Pastorals
by Marvin Shackelford
Loose Pastoral
Beech Hill, Tennessee
1.
One of the guys Jana brought down from Culleoka walks off up the hill and comes back later ... Read More...
The Last Time
Prose and Illustrations by Martha Park
Finalist : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Nonfiction
When we pulled up to the creek-side cabin we’d share for the next wee... Read More...
Two Poems
by Lois P. Jones
Finalist : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Poetry
Click button above to hear Lois P. Jones read this poem, or click here to dow... Read More...
Vax
by Alan Barstow
Finalist : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Fiction
Midmorning we came across a family of Ngoma herders making camp in a grove... Read More...
Two Poems
by Amy A. Whitcomb
We counted waves by sevens
not knowing which was "one"
Otters by tails, kelp
by fistfuls. We counted
steps toward the lighthouse.
... Read More...
Unsprawl:
The Agricultural Reserve
Montgomery County, Maryland
By Claudia Kousoulas
Maryland’s Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve comprises 93,000 contiguous acres in the Washington, D.C. metr... Read More...
Three Poems by John Poch
with Photographs by Jerod Foster
Entre Dos Aguas
Among the perfection of the Biblical seven
and Dante’s nine, you lie there in the sheets,
the lithest sepi... Read More...
One Poem
by Gary Short
Click button above to hear Gary Short read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format.
Plato, Azaleas, Bluebird
... Read More...
Six Poems
by Robert Morgan
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Rolling Rocks
What wa... Read More...
Three Poems
by Mark Irwin
Grocery
The fresh beef hearts are stacked in a refrigerated end cap.
How separate each one is—pinkish grey—wrapped in... Read More...
