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

The Last Time
Prose and Illustrations by Martha Park

January 27, 2019

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

January 21, 2019

Contest, Poetry

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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

January 15, 2019

Contest, Fiction

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

December 25, 2018

Poetry

2

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: Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve, Maryland, by Claudia Kousoulas

Unsprawl:
The Agricultural Reserve
Montgomery County, Maryland

December 13, 2018

To Know a Place, Unsprawl

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 Photos by Jerod Foster

Three Poems by John Poch
with Photographs by Jerod Foster

December 2, 2018

Poetry

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

October 23, 2018

Poetry

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

October 17, 2018

Poetry

Click button above to hear Robert Morgan read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Rolling Rocks What wa... Read More...

Three Poems
by Mark Irwin

October 8, 2018

Poetry

Grocery The fresh beef hearts are stacked in a refrigerated end cap. How separate each one is—pinkish grey—wrapped in... Read More...

No Entry
by Gila Green

September 12, 2018

Fiction

Yael scrambles to put on the new tea-colored hiking boots her parents sent, sliding her feet into the stiff leather. She switches off the air ... Read More...

Three Poems in English and Swedish
by Ingela Strandberg

August 29, 2018

Poetry

Click button above to hear Ingela Strandberg read these poems in Swedish and English, or click here to download poems in .mp3 format. ... Read More...

A Life of Science:
The Human Story of Transformation
in Coastal Bangladesh
by Saleh Ahmed

August 22, 2018

A Life of Science, Currents, To Know a Place

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A Series by New Scientists Most people in Bangladesh have experiences with natural hazards. I am not an exception. Since childhood, ... Read More...

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