Packs the wound, fills the space with mountains that rejected you to begin with. In a broken whisper you catch their attention ask them when the mountains abandoned you, how did you feel? From 'Appalachian Dystopia' by Anna Bohn aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Alone here, I am charged to the eyelids. Time comes and goes in waves and pleats, like the water I stand in. Time is moving through me, not me through time. From 'The Sea Remembers My Scars' by Adelina Basile aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Winter as it used to be purpled, blurred by cold I miss that, now How, the far hills become lavender in the sky of palest rose Snows, everywhere snows From 'Winter Solastalgia' by Catherine Young aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

tell me what you remember, past fault lines of some saving grace, the sea a risen god or was it that the land itself just sank a bathtub drunk, a quiet breath then gone From 'A Quiet Breath' by Estill Pollock #Poetry #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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An absence / filled the space where I was / born

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I miss when cypress thrived, the memory of moss hanging like a net of light. Back then, swans were swans, necks arched in song and everywhere we looked, otters. _____ From 'Ghost Forest' Swans Reflecting Elephants by Salvador Dali, 1937 by Stacey Balkun aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

I miss when cypress thrived, the memory of moss hanging like a net of light. Back then, swans were swans, necks arched in song and everywhere we looked, otters. _____ From 'Ghost Forest' Swans Reflecting Elephants by Salvador Dali, 1937 by Stacey Balkun aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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I've become a person who doesn’t want to write poems that sit like a well-formed vase on a steady table. I’ve become a person who is more interested in poetry that seems like maybe a spell? Maybe a teacup of rainwater? Maybe a glass upturned over a hole under which a wasp nest might reside?

I was born on the edge of death, a ghost forest lit from the bayou below I was born over-exposed underground, in the roots of a dying cypress tree From 'Oree' by Stacey Balkun Read the full poem in the lastest edition of About Place Journal. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Oklahoma is a land for the dead; Oral Roberts still has his hand in the till; crosses gleam, a football field apart, on every highway. ____ From 'It is There as if it were Nothing' by Caleb Jordan aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Edwina’s mother didn’t hand her a business plan. She handed her a way of being in relation to a piece of land – attentive, patient, proud. __ From 'Lakadong Turmeric and the Mothers Who Keep It' by Jonali Patgiri, a writer from Shillong, Meghalaya, in India. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Read Laura Donnelly's full poem 'Conserving the Sequoia,' published in the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social Donnelly lives in Upstate New York and teaches at SUNY Oswego. @sunyofficial.bsky.social Learn more about her work at 🔗 laurakdonnelly.com

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Split in radials for shipping a century ago, you look like an eleven-hour clock but vast and quieter than time. You require a scaffold and team of small brushes, grand in your deterioration as the finest Renaissance fresco... - Laura Donnelly ✍️📃⬇️ aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Split in radials for shipping a century ago, you look like an eleven-hour clock but vast and quieter than time. You require a scaffold and team of small brushes, grand in your deterioration as the finest Renaissance fresco... - Laura Donnelly ✍️📃⬇️ aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

It is not the sand I seek it is the turbulence of my agglutinative tongue digging in defiance of viced currents that pull me further than I have gone further than the country that slips and slips through my finger From 'At Sea' by Ru Freeman 🔗 rufreeman.com aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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From the Preface to our latest edition: The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance “We stand on ancestral land. We walk through stolen cities. We return to sacred places. We resist with our bodies, with our breath, with our stories.” #LitMag #Poetry aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.

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"Buffalo Autumn' by Santa Fe #Artist Kathleen Frank. 🎨 Frank travels throughout the American West, seeking inspiration for her landscape paintings. Using vibrant hues, she captures light and pattern in her search for logic within complex terrains. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

About Place Journal May 2026 is a "bold and unflinching issue" bringing together poetry, essays, fiction, hybrid work, and visual art on the theme "The Ground Beneath Us: Place Power, and Resistance." #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

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"This issue of About Place Journal emerges from a shared recognition: place is never just geography. It is a relationship between people, land, memory, and power." Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Seth Copeland, Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak, Editorial team for The Ground Beneath Us

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Discover the latest edition of About Place Journal ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance Congratulations to Issue editors Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland, Assistant editors Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak for this outstanding issue. #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Poetry friends, please suggest collections that explore ritual (you get to define that word). I already have Poetry as Spellcasting, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, and all of CA Conrad's, Danielle Vogel's, and Annie Finch's work. #Poetry

The shattering new issue of #aboutplacejournal from @blackearthinst.bsky.social is live. I've got one in here, in humbling company, thanks to Issue editors: Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.

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Was such a great pleasure to edit this edition, which is full of incredible snd necessary work

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Discover the latest edition of About Place Journal ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance Congratulations to Issue editors Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland, Assistant editors Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak for this outstanding issue. #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Discover the latest edition of About Place Journal ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance Congratulations to Issue editors Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland, Assistant editors Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak for this outstanding issue. #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.

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TWO ✌🏽 poems out today in @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social in its incredibly pertinent issue “The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power & Resistance”: aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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So grateful to the editors of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social for publishing two of my poems: 𝐴𝑝𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑎 and 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎. Read in their excellent new issue 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝑼𝒔: aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g... #poetry #poetrycommunity

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The new issue of About Place includes my brief essay "Landslide." It's about loss, interconnected ecological and human health, and the ocean. Give it a read. #writing #climatechange #ecology aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Nature writing about the land is so important as the modern world works to sever and numb these relationships @melissasevigny.bsky.social brings her unique voice to this essay connecting love, loss, memory, health and the sea. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g... @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

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The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.

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At best, we are what happens when everyone comes together, no one shunned, all free to rove on a Mother Earth without boundaries or land hogged by the mocking rich. __________ From 'Part Irish, In My Family We Are Stained Glass Windows' by Susan Deer Cloud aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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Janet Ryan has spent the past fifteen years reading, writing, observing the antics of the birds and animals that visit her front yard, and discovering the stories behind the postage stamps she collects. Read her piece "The More Things Change…"in the latest edition of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.

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In my eighty years I have seen many threats to our freedoms, from foreign tyrants to governmental witch hunters, from nuclear tragedy to environmental disaster, from unchecked power to unbridled greed. Today, I fear I see them all gathered before me. Janet Ryan aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

In my eighty years I have seen many threats to our freedoms, from foreign tyrants to governmental witch hunters, from nuclear tragedy to environmental disaster, from unchecked power to unbridled greed. Today, I fear I see them all gathered before me. Janet Ryan aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

bone & blood thru sod & riverbed to loam restored each particle that passes through our aristotle intestines turning turf first from ballast water & root ball our origins emptied from ship to pack more tobacco From 'worm requiem' by Laura-Gray Street aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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When she posts photos from DC protests, I’m an ocean of mothers. The sky burns with pride and stings of menace. There’s more risk in ordinary language than a Cold War of kinetic bombardment could avert. From 'Canticle for Sydna' by Laura-Gray Street aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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