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Leath Tonino's "Castaway" is a powerful Letter to America, a tragic fable really, that speaks to our exploring, conquering history. https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/castaway/ #lettertoamerica #america #history #explorers #conquerers #legacy #poison #fable
Castaway - Terrain.org
Leath Tonino's "Castaway" is a powerful Letter to America, a tragic fable really, that speaks to our exploring, conquering history.
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Diana Halfpenny translates and excerpt from French Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba's Encabanée (or, Sanctuary), a delightful if not dangerous scene in Far North Canada. #isolation #winter #north #canada #farnorth #danger #fiction #story #excerpt #shortstory
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In this episode of the Terrain.org podcast, Tamara Dean speaks with our nonfiction editors: Elizabeth Dodd, Achilles Seastrom, Jennifer Case, and Eric Aldrich. https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/nonfiction-editors-roundtable/ #editing #publishing #writing #editors #nonfiction #bees
Nonfiction Editors' Roundtable - Terrain.org
In this episode of the Terrain.org podcast, Tamara Dean speaks with our nonfiction editors: Elizabeth Dodd, Achilles Seastrom, Jennifer Case, and Eric Aldrich.
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Jesse Breite wrote "Sweetgum Silhouettes" and Logan Blanco painted "Sweetgum Song" in response. Then Blanco painted "Gee's Bouquet" and Breite wrote "Gee's Pantoum #2" in response. View, read, and listen now. #poetry #poems #poet #painting #paintings
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In "The Cradle of the Housatonic River," a poem written and read by Matthew Johnson, the poet asks if the river knows how much it has changed. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/matthew-johnson/ #poem #poetry #poet #river #housatonicriver #massachusetts #connecticut #rivers #change #names
One Poem by Matthew Johnson - Terrain.org
In "The Cradle of the Housatonic River," a poem written and read by Matthew Johnson, the poet asks if the river knows how much it has changed.
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Lori Laleh Goshert's "Swan Song" is a poignant and pointed essay on swans, classical music, film, history, dictators, ICE, climate, and more. #essay #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #swan #swans #wildlife #invasivespecies #film #history #classicalmusic
Swan Song - Terrain.org
Lori Laleh Goshert's "Swan Song" is a poignant and pointed essay on swans, classical music, film, history, dictators, ICE, climate, and more.
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Beatrice Szymkowiak's powerfully quiet Letter to America poem is "American Dream," and beings "the bullet hits doesn’t / shatter the windshield..." https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-szymkowiak/ #poem #poet #poetry #lettertoamerica #bullets #cars #poets #sea
Letter to America by Beatrice Szymkowiak - Terrain.org
Beatrice Szymkowiak's powerfully quiet Letter to America poem is "American Dream," and beings "the bullet hits doesn’t / shatter the windshield..."
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Suzanne Roberts reviews America, A Love Story, Camille T. Dungy’s new book of poems. https://www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/america-a-love-story/ #review #book #poetry #poems #america #blackamerica #love #history
A Book for Troubling Times: Camille Dungy’s America, A Love Story - Terrain.org
Suzanne Roberts reviews America, A Love Story, Camille T. Dungy’s new book of poems.
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"Ode to Cicadas," by Sharon Dolin, is a delightful poem written and read that brings song to cicada and cicada to spirit. Don't miss this one. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/sharon-dolin-2/ #poem #poet #poetry #song #cicada #cicadas #spirit #singing #delight #joy #sound
One Poem by Sharon Dolin - Terrain.org
"Ode to Cicadas," by Sharon Dolin, is a delightful poem written and read that brings song to cicada and cicada to spirit.
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Poet Noah Davis interviews Austin Araujo, author of At the Park on the Edge of the Country: Poems. https://www.terrain.org/2026/interviews/austin-araujo/ #interview #conversation #poets #poetry #place #arkansas #ozarks #rivers #borders #mexico #stories
Including Impossibilities: A Conversation with Austin Araujo - Terrain.org
Poet Noah Davis interviews Austin Araujo, author of At the Park on the Edge of the Country: Poems.
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Emily Van Kley's lovely, haunting Letter to America poem is "Refuge," which takes us to a winter estuary, and back to January 1, 2017. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-van-kley/ #poem #poetry #poet #lettertoamerica #refuge #refuges #birds #winter #estuary #marsh
Letter to America by Emily Van Kley - Terrain.org
Emily Van Kley's lovely, haunting Letter to America poem is "Refuge," which takes us to a winter estuary, and back to January 1, 2017.
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PRAx, Spring Creek Project, and Terrain.org invite poets to create original poems in response to a selection of polar science papers. Submissions close August 26. https://www.terrain.org/2026/news/poetry-polar-science-2026/ #poetry #science #polarscience #submit #submissions
Announcing the Poetry & Polar Science Project: Submissions Close August 26 - Terrain.org
PRAx, Spring Creek Project, and Terrain.org invite poets to create original poems in response to a selection of polar science papers.
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ARTerrain Gallery: Atlas of Dead Birds, paintings by Richard Bohannon—five hauntingly beautiful paintings of extinct birds with family heirlooms, plus narrative. #artist #art #painting #paintings #birds #arterrain #extinction #extingspecies #loss
Atlas of Dead Birds - Terrain.org
ARTerrain Gallery: Atlas of Dead Birds, paintings by Richard Bohannon—five hauntingly beautiful paintings of extinct birds with family heirlooms.
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"Furries" by Jean Marie Hackett is a delightful story of therianthropy, which our youthful narrator reminds us, is not infamous furries. It's something else entirely, and not without danger. https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/furries/ #fiction #story #shorstory #furries #therianthropy #moose
Furries - Terrain.org
"Furries" by Jean Marie Hackett is a delightful story of therianthropy, which our youthful narrator reminds us, is not infamous furries.
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{Erika Howsare reviews Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks, by Philip G. Terrie. https://www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/wild-forest-lands/ #review #nonfiction #adirondacks #wilderness #landscape #place #culture #geography #newyork #history #region
The Meanings of the Mountains: Philip G. Terrie's Wild Forest Lands - Terrain.org
Erika Howsare reviews Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks, by Philip G. Terrie.
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On the 250th birthday of America, Rob Carney considers the "Essential American Songbook" assembled by CBS, making a few suggestions. https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/crow-songs/ #music #jazz #america #america250 #editorial #songs #americanmusic #songs
Crow Songs - Terrain.org
On the 250th birthday of America, Rob Carney considers the "Essential American Songbook" assembled by CBS, making a few suggestions.
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Elizabeth Poliner's lovely poem "Pickard Field, Brunswick, Maine" (with audio) recalls a simple picnic, a poignant foreboding. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/elizabeth-poliner/ #poem #poetry #poet #field #grass #picnic #memory #inmemoriam
One Poem by Elizabeth Poliner - Terrain.org
Elizabeth Poliner's lovely poem "Pickard Field, Brunswick, Maine" (with audio) recalls a simple picnic, a poignant foreboding.
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Recovering from cancer was hard. Hand-crafting a guitar in Spain was one of its unexpected gifts: Karl Zuelke's "Chords of Healing," a lovely essay with audio and images. #guitar #guitars #nonfiction #essay #craft #spain #cancer #cancersurvivor
Chords of Healing - Terrain.org
Recovering from cancer was hard. Hand-crafting a guitar in Spain was one of its unexpected gifts: Karl Zuelke's essay "Chords of Healing."
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Our newest Letter to America (with audio), by Linda Cooper, is simply "Dear America," a poem for the modern-day superhero. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-ameria-cooper/ #poem #poet #poetry #dearamerica #lettertoamerica #politicalpoetry #women #wonderwoman
Letter to America by Linda Cooper - Terrain.org
Our newest Letter to America (with audio), by Linda Cooper, is simply "Dear America," a poem for the modern-day superhero.
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"Fire Season" is a strange and gorgeous poem of people and place (with audio) by Natalie Padilla Young. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/natalie-padilla-young/ #fire #wildfire #women #poetry #poet #poem #place
One Poem by Natalie Padilla Young - Terrain.org
"Fire Season" is a strange and gorgeous poem of people and place (with audio) by Natalie Padilla Young.
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"Northland Shangri-la" is an excerpt of wilderness guide and author Michael Engelhard's No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City. https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/northland-shangri-la/ #nonfiction #excerpt #alaska #beringstrait #hotsprings #beringlandbridge
Northland Shangri-la - Terrain.org
"Northland Shangri-la" is an excerpt of wilderness guide and author Michael Engelhard's No Place Like Nome.
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William Wenthe's lovely poem "Kinglet" speaks to and beyond the news of the day as the small bird "crazes / about a scrawny pecan tree in the back alley." https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/william-wenthe-3/ #birds #kinglet #poetry #poem #poet #birdpoetry #ecopoetry #politicalpoetry
One Poem by William Wenthe - Terrain.org
William Wenthe's lovely poem "Kinglet" speaks to and beyond the news of the day as the small bird "crazes / about a scrawny pecan tree in the back alley."
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Charlie Kalogeros-Chattan reviews tic tic tic by Heidi Seaborn, a book of poems and photographs, memoir and protest. https://www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/tic-tic-tic/ #review #poetry #poems #poet #book #books #bookreview
It’s Just a Matter of Time: Heidi Seaborn’s tic tic tic - Terrain.org
Charlie Kalogeros-Chattan reviews tic tic tic by Heidi Seaborn, a book of poems and photographs, memoir and protest.
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Delighted to have an excerpt from LIFELINES up on the fabulous @terrainorg.bsky.social - on wonder, outer space, brown bears and humility. Plus a video clip from a very resilient camera of bears in Prespa, Greece! www.terrain.org/2026/nonfict...
In Praise of Humility - Terrain.org
"In Praise of Humility" is an excerpt from Julian Hoffman's beautiful new memoir, Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece.
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"The Patriotic Shortener" is a flash fiction Letter to America and parable by Payton Dodd. https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/the-patriotic-shortener/ #fiction #flashfiction #parable #lettertoamerica #story #america
The Patriotic Shortener - Terrain.org
"The Patriotic Shortener" is a flash fiction Letter to America and parable by Payton Dodd.
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On this, the 105th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, my found poem "The Only Ones Left" is featured today in @terrainorg.bsky.social's 𝐿𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 series. The poem appears in 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍'𝒔 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒆--pre-order at link in my bio. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/... @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
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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For your Sunday reading, #author Benjamin Schneider talks about the value of truly public spaces, the concept of "15 minute malls" and flying cars. Take a deep dive into the future of American urban centers. @terrainorg.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2026/intervi...
Gathering Spaces: An Interview with Benjamin Schneider - Terrain.org
Congress for New Urbanism Fellow Galina Tachieva interviews Benjamin Schneider, author of The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution.
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"In Praise of Humility" is an excerpt from Julian Hoffman's beautiful new memoir, Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece. #nonfiction #essay #greece #bears #prespa #wildness www.terrain.org/2026/nonfict...
In Praise of Humility - Terrain.org
"In Praise of Humility" is an excerpt from Julian Hoffman's beautiful new memoir, Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece.
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In this episode of the Terrain.org podcast, acclaimed authors Kerri Schlottman and Caroline Tracey talk about salt lakes, ecological collapse, empathy, environmental justice, and storytelling. https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/salt-lakes/ #podcast #greatsaltlake #saltonsea
Salt Lakes: Extraordinary Ecology and Collapse - Terrain.org
In this episode of the Terrain.org podcast, acclaimed authors Kerri Schlottman and Caroline Tracey talk about salt lakes, ecological collapse, empathy, environmental justice, and storytelling.
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