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Mirja Lobnik reviews The World It Was, Chase Twichell’s latest book of poetry. Read it at: https://www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/the-world-it-was-by-chase-twichell/
Seeing Things as They Are: Chase Twichell's The World It Was - Terrain.org
Mirja Lobnik reviews The World It Was, Chase Twichell’s latest book of poetry.
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Aleria Jensen's poem "Repository," inspired by a scientific paper written by Oregon State University researchers, kicks off our Poetry and Polar Science series, in concert with PRAx and Spring Creek Project. #poem #poet #poetry #antarctica #science
One Poem by Aleria Jensen - Terrain.org
Aleria Jensen's poem "Repository," inspired by a scientific paper written by Oregon State University researchers, kicks off our Poetry and Polar Science series, in concert with PRAx and Spring Creek Project.
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Spring Creek Project and PRAx CoLabs director Carly Solström introduces the Poetry and Polar Science series, featuring 13 poets inspired by research. https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/introducing-poetry-and-polar-science/ #guesteditorial #polar #science #poetry #series
Introducing Poetry & Polar Science - Terrain.org
Spring Creek Project and PRAx CoLabs director Carly Solström introduces the Poetry and Polar Science series, featuring 13 poets inspired by research.
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Sebastian Whiz-Smartlowit's poems "By Another Measure" and "A Seminal Relationship" are next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/sebastian-whiz-smartlowit/ #poems #poetry #poet #washington #rivers #birds #canyons #ash
Two Poems by Sebastian Whiz-Smartlowit - Terrain.org
Sebastian Whiz-Smartlowit's poems "By Another Measure" and "A Seminal Relationship" are next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series.
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Battered and Beloved: A conversation between authors Cara Benson and Susan J. Tweit on love, loss, birds, and what it will take to save the Earth. #conversation #interview #love #loss #birds #earth #trauma #writing #hope #books #newbook
Battered and Beloved: A Conversation Between Cara Benson and Susan J. Tweit - Terrain.org
Battered and Beloved: A conversation between authors Cara Benson and Susan J. Tweit on love, loss, birds, and what it will take to save the Earth.
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In this episode of the Terrain.org podcast, Tamara Dean chats with Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi about his book, The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard. https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/the-ghost-of-the-mountains/ #podcast #snowleopards #wildlife
The Ghost of the Mountains - Terrain.org
In this episode of the Terrain.org podcast, Tamara Dean chats with Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi about his book, The Ghost of the Mountains.
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A pair of Letter to America poems (with audio) by Taylor Light that take us to task: "Skyglow" and "Nocturne for Rolling Blackouts". #poems #poet #poetry #lettertoamerica #politicalpoetry #lightpollution #skyglow #energy #blackouts #infrastructure
Letter to America by Taylor Light - Terrain.org
A pair of Letter to America poems (with audio) by Taylor Light that take us to task: "Skyglow" and "Nocturne for Rolling Blackouts".
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"The Angel on 52nd Street" is a beautiful urban story of art, faith, and community by Philadelphia-based writer Brandon McNeice. https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/the-angel-on-52nd-street/ #story #shortstory #fiction #art #publicart #mural #community #urban #faith #place
The Angel on 52nd Street - Terrain.org
"The Angel on 52nd Street" is a beautiful urban story of art, faith, and community by Philadelphia-based writer Brandon McNeice.
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Three beautiful new poems by Jeffrey Morgan, with audio: "Evolution of the Horse," "Why We Dream," and "Sasquatch Industrial Complex." https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/jeffrey-morgan/ #poems #poetry #poet #animals #horses #sasquatch #dreams #america
Three Poems by Jeffrey Morgan - Terrain.org
Three beautiful new poems by Jeffrey Morgan, with audio: "Evolution of the Horse," "Why We Dream," and "Sasquatch Industrial Complex."
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In his long-tenured Old Roads, New Stories series, Rob Carney sends us a new poem in his new psalm series: "Owl Psalm." https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/owl-psalm/ #owl #greathornedown #owl #poem #poet #poetry #psalm
Owl Psalm - Terrain.org
In his long-tenured Old Roads, New Stories series, Rob Carney sends us a new poem in his new psalm series: "Owl Psalm."
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In his brief excerpt of the new book Astonished by Beauty, Thomas Lowe Fleischner says both solitude and sangha have their own power. https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/solitude-and-sangha/ #excerpt #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #essay #seaofcortez #beauty #joy #sangha #solitude #community
Solitude and Sangha - Terrain.org
In his brief excerpt of the new book Astonished by Beauty, Thomas Lowe Fleischner says both solitude and sangha have their own power.
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Roberto Deriu, a member of Sardinia's regional assembly and author of L’urbanistica non esiste (Urban Planning Doesn’t Exist), pens a guest editorial. #guesteditorial #editorial #sardinia #italy #urbanplanning #urbandevelopment #overdevelopment
Cala Liberotto Was My Summer - Terrain.org
Roberto Deriu, a member of Sardinia's regional assembly and author of L’urbanistica non esiste (Urban Planning Doesn’t Exist), pens a guest editorial.
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Natalie Rice's poem "Oxbow" is a lovely summer scene with the narrator's sister at the edge of the river as night nears. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/natalie-rice-2/ #poetry #poem #poet #summer #sister #sisters #river #oxbow #night #nightswimming #swimming #diving #blue
One Poem by Natalie Rice - Terrain.org
Natalie Rice's poem "Oxbow" is a lovely summer scene with the narrator's sister at the edge of the river as night nears.
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ARTerrain Gallery: The Hunt: An Image Before the Change, by The Krank, is an ephemeral landscape art installation on the edge of the Ionian Sea. https://www.terrain.org/2026/arterrain/the-krank/ #landscapeart #greece #hunters #thekrank #landscape #change #greece #beach #coastline #art
The Hunt: An Image Before the Change - Terrain.org
ARTerrain Gallery: The Hunt: An Image Before the Change, by The Krank, is an ephemeral landscape art installation on the edge of the Ionian Sea.
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Two lovely sonnets by Robert Marteau written in 1990, translated from the French by Malcolm Greenlee Farley, with audio. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/robert-marteau/ #poems #poet #poetry #translation #french #france #abbey #angels #sunlight #joy #history #religion
Two Poems by Robert Marteau - Terrain.org
Two lovely sonnets by Robert Marteau written in 1990, translated from the French by Malcolm Greenlee Farley.
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"Passage" is an excerpt from Lydia Paar's stunning book The Exit is the Entrance: Essays on Escape. https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/passage/ #excerpt #nonfiction #essay #essays #creativenonfiction #newbook #oregon #coast #fear #love #mother #relationships #jobs #work #labor
Passage - Terrain.org
"Passage" is an excerpt from Lydia Paar's stunning book The Exit is the Entrance: Essays on Escape.
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Aneesh Agarwal's poem "banana slug, after rain" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/aneesh-agarwal/ #poetry #poet #poem #washington #youth #slug #bananaslug #bananaslugs #aftertherain
One Poem by Aneesh Agarwal - Terrain.org
Aneesh Agarwal's poem "banana slug, after rain" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series.
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Renata Golden, "a grateful reader," reviews Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River, by Lisa G. Dill. https://www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/around-the-bend-floating-down-the-missouri-river/ #review #reviews #nonfiction #memoir #rivers #missouririver #newbook #book
Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River - Terrain.org
Renata Golden, "a grateful reader," reviews Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River by Lisa G. Dill.
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Four gorgeous poems on the life and love of hunting and fishing by Adam Moore, with audio. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/adam-moore/ #poem #poems #poetry #poet #hunting #hunt #fishing #grandfather #love #place
Four Poems by Adam Moore - Terrain.org
Four gorgeous poems on the life and love of hunting and fishing by Adam Moore, with audio.
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"Notes on a School Shooting" by Cailín Frankland is Terrain.org's newest Letter to America poem (with audio), and sadly one far too relevant these days. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-frankland/ #poetry #poem #poet #lettertoamerica #schoolshootings #schools
Letter to America by Cailín Frankland - Terrain.org
"Notes on a School Shooting" by Cailín Frankland is Terrain.org's newest Letter to America poem, and sadly one far too relevant these days.
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Three strange and beautiful poems by Liam Strong: "black bear sighting", "don't speak the lord's name in vain where the fungi can hear us", and "faith in five different spellings". https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/liam-strong/ #poems #poetry #poet #animals
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"How to Skin a Gazelle" is a lovely if not searing Letter to America poem on war and more, by Yeh Wenqi, a second-generation Taiwanese immigrant. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-wenqi/ #poem #poet #poetry #lettertoamerica #politicalpoetry #shame #war #cliff
Letter to America by Yeh Wenqi - Terrain.org
"How to Skin a Gazelle" is a lovely if not searing Letter to America poem on war and more, by Yeh Wenqi, a second-generation Taiwanese immigrant.
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"A Lit Window Is Someone Awake" is a beautiful story from Sharon Wahl's award-winning book Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances. https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/a-lit-window-is-someone-awake/ #fiction #story #shortstory #excerpt #scientists #sisters #death #student #teacher #fate
A Lit Window Is Someone Awake - Terrain.org
"A Lit Window Is Someone Awake" is a beautiful story from Sharon Wahl's award-winning book Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances.
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Fardokht Gorouhi's gorgeous poem "Elegy for a Cutbank on the Hoh" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series. #poem #poetry #poet #washington #olympicnationalpark #hohriver #fish #herons #rivers #loss #beauty
One Poem by Fardokht Gorouhi - Terrain.org
Fardokht Gorouhi's poem "Elegy for a Cutbank on the Hoh" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series.
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"Into the Mountains" is the prologue to the terrific new book by Joe Wilkins, Every Sky at Home: Essays on Landscape and Family. https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/into-the-mountains/ #essay #nonfiction #excerpt #mountains #family #childhood #montana #oregon #iowa #camping #cabin #wilderness
Into the Mountains - Terrain.org
"Into the Mountains" is the prologue to the terrific new book by Joe Wilkins, Every Sky at Home: Essays on Landscape and Family.
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Julie L. Moore's powerful Letter to America found poem "The Only Ones Left" recalls the May 31-June 1, 1921 Tulsa Massacre from the testimonies of last three survivors in court, 2021. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-julie-l-moore/ #poetry #poem #lettertoamerica #tulsamassacre
Letter to America by Julie L. Moore - Terrain.org
Katherine Shehadeh's powerful Letter to America poem, with audio, is "Lessons from Holocausts (after the Florida Attorney General Tried to Cancel Our Conference)."
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Dolapo Demuren's "American Dream Sonnet Where Children Learn to Read" is a sonnet unlike any you've read before, with audio. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/dolapo-demuren/ #poem #poet #poetry #books #children #trees #pines #forest #reading
One Poem by Dolapo Demuren - Terrain.org
Dolapo Demuren's "American Dream Sonnet Where Children Learn to Read" is a sonnet unlike any you've read before, with audio.
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Turning Toward the Heartbreak: Katlin Curtice interviews Indigenous story-driven strategist and doula Madison Murphy Barney. #interview #doula #story #ancestry #decomposition #growth #regrowth #kinship #connection #disconnection #community #care
Turning Toward the Heartbreak: An Interview with Madison Murphy Barney - Terrain.org
Turning Toward the Heartbreak: Katlin Curtice interviews Indigenous story-driven strategist and doula Madison Murphy Barney.
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