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Dams, Heroic and Doomed:
Paintings by Judith Belzer

February 11, 2019

Skip to Galleries Introduction by Judith Belzer It’s no accident that sometime around the 2016 elections I began to think about dams... Read More...

Auricle Canyon
by Will Cordeiro

February 7, 2019

Nonfiction

Eight-thousand feet up in the Abajo Mountains of southeast Utah, the late September air gave a wicked chill. I bundled on my blue wool-lined j... Read More...

Lawn Guilt
by Michael P. Branch

June 20, 2017

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

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Click button above to hear Michael Branch read this essay, or click here to download the essay in .mp3 format. Henry David Thoreau’... Read More...

My Present Is Not Your Tombstone:
Love and Loss in Utah’s Canyon Country
by Lauren McCrady

November 6, 2016

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

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Most of what I write about in this book is already gone or going under fast. This is not a travel guide but an elegy. A memorial. You’re holdi... Read More...

Cowboy is a Verb: Finding
the Feminine on the Open Range:
Interview with Amy Hale Auker

November 26, 2015

Interviews

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By Lily Iona Mackenzie My Introduction to Amy Hale Auker Amy Hale Auker. Photo by Steve Atkinson. I discovered Amy Hale Auker when m... Read More...

Four Poems
by Luis Montaño

November 1, 2015

Poetry

Click button above to play audio for these poems, or click here to download all poems in .mp3 format. Walking South Me... Read More...

The House We Live In: Eureka
by Amy Knight

October 19, 2015

Currents, The House We Live In

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A Series on Building the Sustainable Home in Tucson, Arizona What we speak becomes the house we live in. – Hafiz It was the spring of... Read More...

Westward Ho!
by Courtney White

June 29, 2015

Nonfiction

Manifest Destiny, Exceptionalism, and One Family's Settling of Phoenix, Arizona This is a personal story about manifest destiny.  In 1966, ... Read More...

Making a Name: Wallace Stegner
by David Gessner

April 6, 2015

Nonfiction

Here are Wallace Stegner’s words upon deciding to leave his papers at the University of Utah, rather than at Stanford: “Any scholar who has to g... Read More...

Edward Abbey at Havasu
by David Gessner

March 30, 2015

Nonfiction

Wallace Stegner and Ed Abbey’s utopias were different.Stegner’s dream was of a western community where good people worked together toward a comm... Read More...

An Excerpt from Pale Harvest
by Braden Hepner

August 27, 2014

Fiction

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Click button above to play audio for this excerpt, or click here to download in .mp3 format. This excerpt from Braden Hepner's Pale Harvest... Read More...

The Wolf Yearling, by Jeffrey C. Alfier : Review by Sheryl Luna Alfier’s gift lies in capturing these harsh landscapes in linguistic elegance. He finds and expresses beauty in the desert and its people...characters of the region...include: a parolee, an alcoholic, a middle-aged waitress at a truck stop, a Union Pacific engineer, a migrant worker, seasonal workers, and farmers.

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