Today, October 1st is the deadline for submissions to the next edition of our literary journal. We publish About Place Journal as an expression of our founding mission to link spirituality, social justice, and care for the earth and its beings. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

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Call for Submissions: This issue of About Place Journal—The Power of Art in a Changing World—seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

Sometimes you walk away from all of the noise and the people seeking fresh air and silence for a moment. And there above you, outside the Anchorage Airport spreads the great wings of autumn sunrise. #apprenticetolight

To grab a spot or just to support go here: fnd.us/62mtne #poetry

This issue of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. Work must be submitted via Submittable by October 1, 2026.

About Place Journal@aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Call for Submissions: This issue of About Place Journal—The Power of Art in a Changing World—seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

Did I think the ocean was unchanged? Only on the surface. Down below, it’s warming. The ocean will take it and take it and take it until the ocean can’t take it anymore, and then, the ocean will rise. From 'Landslide' by science writer & poet Melissa L. Sevigny aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

#BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp has three new poems published in Issue #7 of Public School Poetry: 🖋️ Middle Distance 🖋️ Pears 🖋️ Permeable "In these poems, you will learn that solitude is not empty," says Sehee S. Oh about Camp's work. www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/lauren...

Now past equinox, we slip across the threshold into the dreaming time of year. #apprenticetolight

Since I’ve just signed the contract, I can announce that my poem “cosmic horror” has been accepted for publication by Uncanny Magazine. Here’s their most recent cover:

"Since I’ve spent my career exploring other species, they must be included in any conversation with AI. We must also look beyond us to imagine how AI will affect not only humans, but also our natural world." - Brenda S.Peterson #BEI Emeritus Fellow #AI bpetersonauthor.substack.com/p/beyond-us-...

Beyond Us: Conversations with Claude

Is AI “another species” in Our Natural World?

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In Elizabeth Cranford Garcia's 'American Spring, v.1', the author asks "is there anything, America, that can stretch you beyond your elastic tolerance?" Read the full text in the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social #Poetry #LitMag

About Place Journal@aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

2 to issue forth suddenly as water, or as Executive Orders renaming bodies of water America. As pink blossoms from the redbuds, flaunting their promises, their promiscuity. Also, as uterine blood from a woman sent home from the ER... From American Spring, v.1 aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

New date & location for Meghana's reading (Tues. Oct. 6, 6:00 pm; Maier Museum of Art at Randolph Collgee). Please join us! @randolphcollege.bsky.social

I put them together and they make such a pretty family picture. #poetry #poet

In this Feminism and Religion post, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow @anniefinch.com shares her reflections on "the five ways Goddessness can help ALL of us—not only women—to navigate the death-throes of patriarchy we are currently enduring." feminismandreligion.com/2026/09/16/g...

GoddessCircle 2: How You Can Have a Goddessful Mind (and Why You Need One!) by Annie Finch

In the first post in this series, I paid homage to Carol Christ’s 1978 clarion call “Why Women Need the Goddess,” which explains how the Goddess helps women overcome the profound wounds of patriarc…

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Please join us for the PEN Women International Reading on Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. Mountain. Writing During The Difficult.... a reading by women poets around the world. I hope to see you there!

@revolutelitmag.bsky.social now accepting poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and microreviews! No fee to submit! FInd on Submittable at Revolute.submittable.com

@revolutelitmag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Revolute Lit Mag is open for submissions! No fee to submit. #RandolphMFA @randolphcollege.bsky.social

My thanks to the person who picked up the first perk for the WORDSMITH POETRY WORKSHOP! Grab YOUR spot for my first ever virtual poetry workshop via Zoom, or grab a perk/wish to just support the writing. Here: fnd.us/62mtne #poetry

Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Taylor Brorby who was recently named as a new assistant professor of English at Montana State University. Brorby will also be the inaugural Haynes Faculty Fellow. www.msuexponent.com/author-taylo...

Author Taylor Brorby returns to the West with new MSU faculty position

When Taylor Brorby would visit Bozeman to ski in the ‘90s, the town ended at the Lewis and Clark Motel. This year, Brorby returned to Bozeman to teach at MSU, and it’s safe to say that the city looks ...

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I know that most of you love summertime. But I feel like a part of my heart clicks into place when I can again see Orion rising from behind the mountains across Kachemak Bay. #alaska

Every pastoral, including this one, risks sweeping clean history’s conscience. In the American vein, thick veil over the stygian face of forgetting every removal: people, animals, plants, water. From 'In Which She Considers the Midwestern “Landscape” S. Scarry aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

#BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp will be among the 2026 Conference Faculty for the 'Desert Nights Rising Stars Conference' hosted by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. 🗓️Oct 16–17 @arizonastateuni.bsky.social piper.asu.edu/conference/f...

I've a new poem up at West Trestle Review about migration, myth, and restlessness. www.westtrestlereview.com/fall_2026_er...

"When my father died, I wrote the obituary and then I wrote a poem about the writing of it. Then, I put down my pen and stopped." A craft essay by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp, published by Cleaver Magazine. #LitMag #Alzheimer’s www.cleavermagazine.com/on-writing-m...

ON WRITING MY FATHER INTO THE FUTURE, A Poetry Craft Essay by Lauren Camp • Cleaver Magazine

A Poetry Craft Essay by Lauren Camp ON WRITING MY FATHER INTO THE FUTURE I’ve never intended to write a book, but then a situation appears — a month at the Grand Canyon or Alzheimer’s or the next larg...

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Sometimes you read something so absolutely right it takes your breath away. Today, it was from Pádraig Ó Tuama's newsletter. "A myth is something that is so true we have to construct a container of fantasy to hold it."

"Devastating wildfires near and far. I wrote this poem six years ago. It was published in Terrain.org and included in one of my books. It is still so frightfully relevant. I worry for so many communities—including my own." -Lauren Camp, #BEI Emeritus Fellow www.terrain.org/2023/poetry/...

Two Poems by Lauren Camp - Terrain.org

Two powerful new poems by New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp: "On the Margin of Patience" and "Days of the Fire of Fires", with audio.

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Farewell, farewell—again, farewell—to the once clean home, to the odán trees now weeping on lonely nights as bats no longer keep them company. They, too, are witnessing how a place begins to fade before it crumbles. -Aiyétéjú, by Nigerian poet Clement Abayomi aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

Clement Abayomi – The Ground Beneath Us – About Place Journal

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Did you know➡️ #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow @nickolebrown.bsky.social is also the founder of the Hellbender Gathering of Poets, an organization that "aims to nurture a community hellbent on finding the words that protect and repair our climate-changed world." www.hellbenderpoets.org/about-us

This issue of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. Work must be submitted via Submittable by October 1, 2026.

About Place Journal@aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Call for Submissions: This issue of About Place Journal—The Power of Art in a Changing World—seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

The end of summer where I live has a distinct scent. Musk of red elderberries crushed under foot. Yellow sweetness of wild chamomile’s fading blossoms. Rot of jewelweed and nettle overburdened and flattened onto the path. Mineral tang of the muddy shoulder of the gravel road.

A new poem exploring the pantoum form from #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Elizabeth Cunningham🍃Discover more of Elizabeth’s work here: elizabethcunninghamwrites.com

Call for Submissions: This issue of About Place Journal—The Power of Art in a Changing World—seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/