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

May 30, 2020

A Literary Series A lot of things sucked in the 1800s, but literature wasn’t one of them. There was this book by a young woman, Mary ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Deborah Thompson

April 22, 2020

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Quarantine Howls Dear America, Generally I am not the kind of person who howls. I don’t hop onto each new neo-ritual passing through. Frie... Read More...

The Natural History Museum at Bergen, Norway

Bull Hill:
The Moving Sounds of Whales
by David Rothenberg

April 5, 2020

Bull Hill, Currents, Guest Editorial

As soon as I walked in I realized this is no ordinary museum. No one knows exactly how the whales got there, but there they are. Skel... Read More...

One Poem
by Kevin Miller

October 26, 2019

Poetry

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...

Eleven Paths to Animal Music
by David Rothenberg

October 22, 2019

Nonfiction

We cannot ask other species to explain themselves, since it is not language we share with the birds. It is music. Every time I come ... Read More...

Preparations for Thinking Slow
by David Carlin

May 30, 2019

Nonfiction

There is a Finnish expression I learnt in Lapland, rannaton aika, which translates as “shoreless time”. When you can see the horizon but there... Read More...

Letter to America
Audio by Eric LeMay

May 20, 2019

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Fox Lake Click button above to hear Eric LeMay's Letter to America, or click here to download the audio essay in .mp3 format. ... Read More...

Songs of the Humpback Whale
by Mary Quade

May 10, 2019

Nonfiction

When I was a kid in Wisconsin in the 1970s, we didn’t have global warming. We had litter, and we had pollution. Well, and nuclear annihilation... Read More...