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- Four stellar new poems, with audio by Julie Kane: "Prayer to Chaos," "Ode to the Big Muddy," "The Maple Leaf Bar," and "The Bottle Factory." terrain.org/2025/poetry/julie-kane/ #poems #poet #poetry #chaos #memory #work #rivers #youth
- "Ibe Liebenberg," by Chickasaw writer and firefighter Ibe Liebenberg, is a short story that takes you into the gullet of a house fire and out the other side. terrain.org/2025/fiction/amateu… #story #shortstory #fiction #fire
- Kathryn Winograd's "Memories of a Suburban Naturalist" spans a rich adult lifetime in urban and suburban Denver, and beyond. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/mem… #essay #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #place #colorado #memory #denver
- Lisa Rosenberg's "The Rain Weighs In" is a beautiful, subtle yet scorning Letter to America villanelle, with audio. terrain.org/2025/poetry/lisa-ro… #poem #poet #poetry #lettertoamerica #rain #extremes #politicalpoetry
- Wild Culture: Helena Feder holds a fascinating conversation with Canadian whale scientist Hal Whitehead. terrain.org/2025/interviews/hal… #interview #whales #culture #marinebiology #science #scientist #scientistprofile #canada
- Olivia Nesselroade reviews The Ghost Town Collectives and Other Stories for the Anthropocene, by Brittney Corrigan. terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/… #review #reviews #anthropocene #climatefiction #shortstories
- "Fire" is a a rich, elegant, and brutal story set in Africa by Nigerian writer Augustine Okam. terrain.org/2025/fiction/fire/ #fire #violence #africa #thieves
- Reposted by Terrain.org"I’ve only ever been here, in an eternity of Januarys. People have told me about other places, just never the roads leading in or out of those states, or about the bridges one might enter by." From Emily Light in @terrainorg.bsky.social
- Reposted by Terrain.orgAlright, it's another beautiful Sub Club Monday! (The @chillsubs.bsky.social newsletter I obsessively pour over EVERY Monday...) The submission call that most grabbed me today was from @terrainorg.bsky.social Great time to think about place, climate, and justice #writer www.terrain.org/submit/
- "These Brazil Nut Nigga Toes" is a searing Letter to America poem by Jarrett Ziemer, with audio. terrain.org/2025/poetry/jarrett… #poem #poet #poetry #racism #toes #body #running #africanamerican #black
- Ian Hall reviews Nicole Callihan's Tenth Gate Prize-winning poetry collection chigger ridge. terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/… #review #reviews #book #books #poetry
- Two beautiful, mythic poems, with audio, by Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup: "Heshkegh Ka’a" and "Exhibit 10: Polyphemus Moth". terrain.org/2025/poetry/annie-w… #poetry #poet #poems #alaska #myth #mythic #nativealaskan #moth #apocalypse
- A brief and lovely excerpt of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return by CMarie Fuhrman--is it a bend in the river, or a dream? terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/the… #rivers #dreams #memory #community #summer
- Five stunning poems on place, race, history, and home, including two erasure poems, by Chaun Ballard. Don't miss these important, imperative poems. terrain.org/2025/poetry/chaun-b… #poetry #poems #poet #politicalpoetry #race #history
- Rick Van Noy's "Headwaters" begins his newest book, Borne by the River: Canoeing the Delaware from Headwaters to Home. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/hea… #rivers #delawareriver #canoeing #stroke #memory #loss #climate #newyork #newjersey
- Two lovely new poems by Eben E. B. Bein, with audio: "The Source" and "Angel of Rorschasch". terrain.org/2025/poetry/eben-e-… #poems #poet #poetry #butterflies #insects #Rorschach #body #win #mourningcloakbutterfly
- Seth Borgen's mythic short story "Englings" is winner of the Terrain.org 15th Annual Contest in Fiction, selected by Manuel Muñoz. terrain.org/2025/fiction/endlings/ #fiction #story #shortstory #animals #empathy #death
- L.I. Henley's lyrical essay, "Essay Made of Lonely, Little Bones," is the winner of the Terrain.org 15th Annual Nonfiction Contest, selected by Taylor Brorby. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/ess…
- Two terrific poems by Julia B. Levine have won Terrain.org's 15th Annual Poetry Contest, selected by Paisley Rekdal: "The Dove" and "O". Read or listen to these beauties now. terrain.org/2025/poetry/julia-b…
- A Terrain.org fiction contest finalist, "Clack" by A. C. Silva is a delightful story of seaside love (and something else altogether) found and lost. terrain.org/2025/fiction/clack/ #fiction #story #seaside #shells #beach
- Reposted by Terrain.orgThese two poems in @terrainorg.bsky.social by William Ward Butler!
- Reposted by Terrain.orgOn Sunday I'll launch this book, nearly 2 decades in the making, at the Center for Creative Photography. In Tucson? Join me from 4-5 p.m. There will a quiz with prizes! Details at simmonsbuntin.com/event/satell.... Thanks to @skyislandalliance.bsky.social and @terrainorg.bsky.social for sponsoring!
- "If we did not have a belief system that prioritized the single male sky god, would we be able to listen to Mother Earth?" asks Nadia Colburn in her guest editorial. terrain.org/2025/currents/mothe… #mothers
- Suzanne Kehm's "Endangered Species," a Terrain.org fiction contest finalist, is a sassy coming-of-age, split family summer tale. terrain.org/2025/fiction/endang… #fiction #story #shortstory #summer #youth #lake
- Judith Frankel's short, fascinating 3-part essay "Shelter" is a finalist in the Terrain.org 15th Annual Nonfiction Contest. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/she… #essay #nonfiction #davis #craneflies #rats #murder #california
- Reposted by Terrain.orgListen to 'Prayer Against Extinction' a timely and compelling poem by Pamela Uschuk, published @terrainorg.bsky.social. @1pamuschuk.bsky.social is a #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow. www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
- Reposted by Terrain.orgReally pleased to hear that Dr. Purnima Devi Barman has been recognized as a TIME Woman of the Year. We featured her work - empowering women by saving the greater adjutant stork - in @terrainorg.bsky.social in 2023. Here's that interview. #WomeninSTEM 🌎👩🔬 www.terrain.org/2023/intervi...
- Reposted by Terrain.orgTake a break from the world for a few minutes and read this just published short story by April Darcy. @terrainorg.bsky.social
- Reposted by Terrain.orgThis is stunning.
- Lee Horiksohi Roripaugh's lyrical, six-part essay "Colony Collapse" braids honeybee salvation, social media, and the slow demise of her parents. Don't miss this short, stunning essay. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/col… #bees #virus
- Reposted by Terrain.orgPopping in to share this poem about the reverberations of another authoritarian regime. Thanks @terrainorg.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
- Lee Horiksohi Roripaugh's lyrical, six-part essay "Colony Collapse" braids honeybee salvation, social media, and the slow demise of her parents. Don't miss this short, stunning essay. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/col… #bees #virus
- Two gorgeous contest semifinalist poems by Zoe Boyer: "Cicada" and "Sixteen Wasps Dead in the Door Frame," with audio. terrain.org/2025/poetry/zoe-boyer/ #poetry #poems #poet #insects #cicada #cicadas #wasps #death #life #sky
- Three contest semifinalist poems by Dan Barton, with audio: "A Personal History of Camouflage," "Cumberland Island, Evening," and "Letter from Atlantis." terrain.org/2025/poetry/dan-barton/ #poems #poetry #poet #cumberlandisland #memory
- Reposted by Terrain.orgIt is increasingly dangerous to be sick in America when insurance companies seek to profit from pain. Many thanks to @terrainorg.bsky.social for publishing these four linked poems (and audio!) about navigating our broken American healthcare system. www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
- Reposted by Terrain.orgSuch good writing! Makes the heart heavy, but the long view often does. Still, learning to observe and really see all of the interconnectedness between past and present is helpful when feeling overwhelmed by the world today. We are all part of a larger story.
- "Centralia: A Scatterplot of Slow Violence" by Jodi Cressman, a Terrain.org Nonfiction Contest semifinalist, explores the massacres & other violences of Centralias across America. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/cen… #centralia
- "Centralia: A Scatterplot of Slow Violence" by Jodi Cressman, a Terrain.org Nonfiction Contest semifinalist, explores the massacres & other violences of Centralias across America. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/cen… #centralia
- Four powerful, heartbreaking Letter to America poems about the challenges of the healthcare industry in America, by Sarah Fawn Montgomery. terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-… #poems #poetry #poet #healthcare #pain
- Reposted by Terrain.orgHere's an intricate and beautiful conversation among five mothers - about motherhood, ecology, climate change, and hope. @terrainorg.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
- Philip Rösel Baker's Letter to America poem "Nazi Salute," with audio, is a searing, satirical poetic take on just what the world did indeed see. #poetry #poem #poet #politicalpoetry #america #coup terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-…
- Reposted by Terrain.orgRead more from Martha Park on these topics in her upcoming book, WORLD WITHOUT END: ESSAYS ON APOCALYPSE AND AFTER, that comes out on May 6. Preorder now at hubcity.org/worldwithoutend.
- Reposted by Terrain.orgHead over to @terrainorg.bsky.social to read a powerful conversation by Jennifer Case, with Martha Park, Emily Raboteau, Christina Rivera + Elizabeth Rush about environmental writing and motherhood. www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
- In nonfiction contest finalist "Beyond the Mine," Nicholas Crane Moore and his wife traverse landscape and history in backcountry Alaska. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/bey… #essay #nonfiction #alaska #backcountry #hiking #danger #glacier
- Two lovely new poems by Marry Morris: "Oceanic" (forthcoming in Lanterns in the Night Market) and "British Columbia 1965," with audio. terrain.org/2025/poetry/mary-mo… #poems #poetry #poet #ocean #oceans #sea #coast #animals #fish #ray
- A powerful and necessary conversation on motherhood and environment between Jennifer Case, Martha Park, Emily Raboteau, Christina Rivera, and Elizabeth Rush. #motherhood #environment #mothers #children terrain.org/2025/interviews/mot…
- Reposted by Terrain.orgNeed a good distraction? I suggest a few lovely poems here to ground you.
- Three moving poems of personal, family, and natural history, by H. M. Cotton, with audio. terrain.org/2025/poetry/h-m-cotton/ #poems #poetry #poet #family #rural #stars #sea #bay #familyhistory
- Two gorgeous poems of the more-than-human-world by Terrain.org 15th Annual Poetry Contest semifinalist Jane Satterfield, with audio: "Joining the Crows" and "Dragonfly or Drone". terrain.org/2025/poetry/jane-sa… #poetry
- Corrie Lynn White's "The Sea Doesn't Give AF It's Your Honeymoon" is a wild ride of a short essay and a semifinalist in the Terrain.org 15th Annual Nonfiction Contest. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/sea… #sea #danger #ocean
- Three moving poems of personal, family, and natural history, by H. M. Cotton, with audio. terrain.org/2025/poetry/h-m-cotton/ #poems #poetry #poet #family #rural #stars #sea #bay #familyhistory
- Reposted by Terrain.orgDelighted and immensely honoured to be a finalist in the Sowell Emerging Writer Prize. Congratulations to my fellow finalists! 👏👏👏
- Terrain.org, the Sowell Collection, and Texas Tech University Press are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2025 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize for a manuscript in fiction. terrain.org/2025/news/announcin… #sowellprize
- "The Plague of Hail" by Julie Marie Wade is a brilliant, searing flash essay of a hailstorm literal and metaphorical from Wade's childhood, with audio. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/the… #mother #hail #storm #fury #fear
- "You and I are Butterflies" by Alice Kinerk is a terrific story about Benji, a fifth-grade boy in a new school who makes a new friend, or does he? terrain.org/2025/fiction/you-an… #fiction #story #shortstory
- Terrain.org, the Sowell Collection, and Texas Tech University Press are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2025 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize for a manuscript in fiction. terrain.org/2025/news/announcin… #sowellprize
- Reposted by Terrain.orgHere is my review of a powerful book of poetry by Dorsía Smith Silva.
- Cassandra Lewis reviews Dorsía Smith Silva's book of poems about Hurricane María, colonialism, and racial injustice in Puerto Rico: In Inheritance of Drowning. terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/… #review #poetry
- Reposted by Terrain.orgPlease enjoy this memory of mine. Please continue to share. ❤️
- Cassandra Lewis reviews Dorsía Smith Silva's book of poems about Hurricane María, colonialism, and racial injustice in Puerto Rico: In Inheritance of Drowning. terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/… #review #poetry
- Two powerful if not painful Letter to America poems about Sonya Massey and Chrystul Kizer (in conversation with Harriet Tubman) by Saida Agostini, with audio. terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-… #poetry #poet #racism
- Toxic, toxins, cancer, ideograms, men, women, and the old/new president: Elizabeth Jacobson's searing Letter to America, "America, Here We Go Again!" has it all. Don't miss this one. terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-…
- Nathan Dixon's "Mermaids in the Floodplain" is wry climate fiction from deep inside the conservative, anti-science movement. Strap in for this one. terrain.org/2025/fiction/mermai… #fiction #story #clifi #floods
- Daniel Seifert's "Calming exercise for the 21st Century" is a welcome and no doubt essential Letter to America poem for Inauguration Day. terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-… #poem #poetry #poet #politicalpoetry #winter
- "The Desert Bares My Weakness" is a lovely, mystical poem by Diné writer Byron F. Aspaas, with audio. terrain.org/2025/poetry/byron-f… #poem #poetry #poet #desert #dine #navajo #memory #sky
- "Sleeping in the Anthropocene" is an excerpt from Canadian Paul Huebener's fascinating, important book Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Sleep. terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/sle… #sleep #weather #climate
- Reposted by Terrain.orgThanks to all the Book Publishers out there! @terrainorg.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social #sowellcollection #literature #community #nature #publishing #books #archive
- Reposted by Terrain.org"the sky/is borderless"
- "Organ Pipe" is a lovely poem set in Organ Pipe National Monument along the Arizona-Sonora border by Andrew Alexander Mobbs. Read and listen now. terrain.org/2025/poetry/andrew-… #poem #poet #poetry #desert #sonorandesert #cactus
- "Organ Pipe" is a lovely poem set in Organ Pipe National Monument along the Arizona-Sonora border by Andrew Alexander Mobbs. Read and listen now. terrain.org/2025/poetry/andrew-… #poem #poet #poetry #desert #sonorandesert #cactus
- Coming soon from our Editor-in-Chief. One of many important, beautiful books coming out by Terrain editors this year!
- Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far (Trinity University Press)! Publishing March 4, pre-order at a 20% discount using SA20 at tupress.org/978159534311.... As reviews and more at simmonsbuntin.com/satellite/.
- Rob Carney presents four facts in his latest "Old Roads, New Stories" series, beginning with The Earth Isn't Flat and ending with The Person You Love Is 72.8% Water. terrain.org/2025/currents/four-… #facts #essay #poetry #nonfiction
- Three beautiful, haunting ancestor poems by Ever Jones, with audio: "1957," "1873," and "1736." terrain.org/2025/poetry/ever-jo… #poetry #poet #poems #history #ancestors #ancestry #heritage #women #place
- Reposted by Terrain.orgPlace, generations, and hauntings of the past meet in this story that was a perfect early-morning read. Thank you to @terrainorg.bsky.social for sharing it.
- "In the Midday Heat" is a lovely pastoral story by Antanas Vaičiulaitis (1906-1992), translated from Lithuanian by Matthew Vasiliauskas. terrain.org/2025/fiction/in-the… #fiction #shortstory #translation #lithuania
- "In the Midday Heat" is a lovely pastoral story by Antanas Vaičiulaitis (1906-1992), translated from Lithuanian by Matthew Vasiliauskas. terrain.org/2025/fiction/in-the… #fiction #shortstory #translation #lithuania
- Kimberly Ann Priest's "A Man's World" is a New Year's Letter to America that reminds us there is light as well as dark in the new year. Start your year with this brief, important poem. terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-…
- Heather Swan reviews Gagaan X'usyee / Below the Foot of the Sun: Poems, by Native Alaskan poet X'unei Lance Twitchell. terrain.org/2024/reviews-reads/… #review #bookreview #poetry #nativealaskan #indigenouspoetry #nativepoetry
