The Lawns, So Well-Tended
by Ana Maria Spagna
The lawns wowed me daily, the green green grass and the sidewalks swept of leaves and the neighbors on the weekends in work gloves and shorts,... Read More...
One Poem
by David Axelrod
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Memory-Hoard
I.
Contrails... Read More...
Old Roads, New Stories:
Poems as Rakes
by Rob Carney
A Literary Series
So there’s this joke I heard once—I forget where—that goes something like this:
A Dean of Humanities ... Read More...
To Hold a Beautiful, Burning Snake
by Caleb Roberts
I.
They said the Thompson Ridge wildfire was a good fire. It began on May 31, 2013, at the southern foot of Redondo Peak in the Jemez M... Read More...
Blue Mountain: A Painted Essay
by Lena Moses-Schmitt
When I was twenty-three, I quit my job and ... Read More...
Two Poems
by David Axelrod
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Late August in the Ok... Read More...
Review: A Hunger for High Country
Jennifer Ladino reviews A Hunger for High Country: One Woman's Journey to the Wild in Yellowstone Country, by Susan Marsh
Oregon State Univer... Read More...
Letter to America
by Susan Rich
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Mornings
When a mourning... Read More...
Letter to America
by Pamela Uschuk
After the Election We Watch the Super Moon Rise over the Rincon Mountains
The mountains are burning and we cannot sleep.
W... Read More...
Letter to America
by Rose McLarney
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Writing on a Scrap of Paper... Read More...
Crosscut
by Tim Lydon
I am cutting firewood near my home in northwest Montana when my old chainsaw, plagued by various ailments, finally sputters and dies. In sudde... Read More...
Long-Term Ecological Reflections:
Art Among Science Among Place
by Charles Goodrich + Frederick J. Swanson
Guest Editorial
The methods of the arts and sciences may differ, but creativity is fundamental to both, and creating occasions for the arts... Read More...
