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Two beautiful new poems of family and place by Suzanne Matson, with audio: "The One in Philipsburg, Montana" and "The One in Garibaldi, Oregon." terrain.org/2026/poetry/suza… #poetry #poet #poems #montana #oregon #mountains #grasslands #children #sons #family #rural #work

Two Poems by Suzanne Matson

The One in Philipsburg, Montana After his brother goes west to Oregon, taking his half of their jokes and running routines, my youngest son is left with the apartment looking out over the Pintlers,...

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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. terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/… #nonfiction #essay #excerpt #book #greece #prespa #bears #wildness #home #humility

In Praise of Humility

   hen I was a boy, I was fascinated by outer space. It was an interest initiated by a coffee-table book about the universe that I pored over obsessively in our living room in a small town in...

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"Whitewater," a new poem of danger, beauty, life, and love on the river, by Montana poet Scott Davidson. terrain.org/2026/poetry/scot… #poem #poetry #poet #river #rivers #rafting #whitewater #danger #beauty #risk #adventure #love

One Poem by Scott Davidson

   Whitewater We begin on the slow upper curve of the river, feeling our way in current and wind, the sudden tug of power beneath us. Just ahead water rolls darkly over stones that break the surface....

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"To Archibald Thorburn Kneeling in the Snow near Inverness" by Matthew Thorburn is a lovely poem of birds, art, and heritage--with audio. terrain.org/2026/poetry/matt… #poem #poetry #poet #birds #ptarmigan #family #heritage #artist #art #history

One Poem by Matthew Thorburn

To Archibald Thorburn Kneeling in the Snow near Inverness In memoriam, A.T. (1860-1935)    Against the blue-shadowed snow these winter-white ptarmigan—six, ten, twelve of them now—nearly disappear as...

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Rob Carney presents 13 kick-ass song (plus his own psalm), finding music is a natural environment, and we’re lucky that we get to live in it. terrain.org/2026/currents/mu… #poetry #music #livemusic #concerts #instruments #rocknroll #altrock #modestmouse

Music is a Natural Environment

Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series    pril was “National Poetry Month,” which was nice. I mean, I wish we didn’t need a special carve out—wish poets were read and remembered the whole year...

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GKS Waller reviews Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods by Jennifer Kabat, who invites readers "to live outside ourselves..." terrain.org/2026/reviews-rea… #naturewriting #review #book

Finding a Father in Climate Change: Jennifer Kabat’s Nightshining

  Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods By Jennifer Kabat Milkweed Editions | 2025 | 360 pages    rying to find my father I have been likewise outside myself,” writes Jennifer Kabat toward the end of...

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"Letters in the Attic" is an excerpt (first full chapter) of the Sowell Emerging Writers Prize-winning novel Cupido Cupido, by Emily Grandy. terrain.org/2026/fiction/let… #fiction #novel #excerpt #kentucky #family #relationships #youth #chatper1 #farm #rural

Letters in the Attic

He puzzled over the old man’s odd behavior. Tossing the letters in the bin had, naturally enough, only served to pique his curiosity.      t Pearson International, passports in hand, Egg and his...

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In this fascinating interview, Congress for New Urbanism Fellow Galina Tachieva chats with Benjamin Schneider, author of The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution. terrain.org/2026/interviews/… #interview #urban #urbandesign #urbanpolicy #infrastructure

Gathering Spaces: An Interview with Benjamin Schneider

Truly public spaces, where protests and celebrations can take place. Subversive works of art. Neighborliness and in-person interaction. We can’t take these things for granted.   Introduction enjamin...

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Two strange and gorgeous new poems by Jennifer K. Sweeney, with audio: "Fairy Ring" and "Formation." terrain.org/2026/poetry/jenn… #poetry #poems #poet #fairyring #fairyrings #paths #trees #woods #magic #growth #forest #forests #trails

Two Poems by Jennifer K. Sweeney

Fairy Ring Imagine your mother died and as she died she fed you and you grew up as she grew down and she was not even a she but a skytunnel deepdown plosive accordion of darkness and light but she so...

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In her lovely lyric essay "Tendrils," Nancy Bell weaves science and memory, wonder and strangeness, dreams and possibilities. terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/… #essay #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #plants #wonder #motherhood #strangeness #theatre #theater #memory #children #stars

Tendrils

Just think: the world is full of this plant chatter, this invisible glow.    few weeks ago, I heard a podcast about how plants can feel things. They literally have a physical sense of touch like...

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Congratulations to Annie Wenstrup, Chris Watkins, and Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey for winning the 2026 Terrain.org Editor’s Prizes in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction! terrain.org/2026/news/2026-e… #prize #award #poetry #nonfiction #fiction #editorsprize
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Our newest ARTerrain Gallery is now live: Meditations on Geometries of Water: Summer Lake, by artist and writer Leah Wilson. terrain.org/2026/arterrain/l… #art #artwork #arterrain #paintings #oregon #playa #summerlake #rural #agriculture #water #marshes #highdesert

Meditations on Geometries of Water: Summer Lake

   he interplay of irregular, natural shapes and regular, human-imposed geometries reveals our values, desires, and priorities as expressed in how we manipulate the land. Water, left to its own...

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John Balaban's "Crossing the Mekong Ferry, Reading the New Yorker" is the third of three poems from Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War reprinted in Terrain.org. terrain.org/2026/poetry/one-… #poetry #poet #poem #war #vietnam #mekong #napalm #toxins
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Jaylan Salah Salman's "You Killed My Rosemary Garden" is the second of three poems from Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War reprinted in Terrain.org. terrain.org/2026/poetry/jayl… #poem #poetry #poet #rosemary #war #garden #destruction
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Sean Mcclain Brown's "First Snow" is the first of three poems from Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War reprinted in Terrain.org. terrain.org/2026/poetry/sean… #poetry #poem #poet #war #bombing #flying #military #destruction #alfalfa
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Teresa Mei Chuc pens a guest editorial about the new anthology Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War, which she co-edited. terrain.org/2026/currents/wa… #guesteditorial #editorial #anthology #poetry #poems #war #warpoetry

War and Its Impact on Non-Human Life

A new poetry anthology re-centers the conversation on war to destruction of the environment.         was born in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam and fled my Vietnamese homeland in a boat with my mother and brother...

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Deborah Bacharach reviews Elline Lipkin's book of poems, Girl in a Forest, featuring Gretel from the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale. terrain.org/2026/reviews-rea… #review #poems #hanselandgretel #fairytales #poetry #book

Finding Power Among the Trees: Elline Lipkin’s Girl in a Forest

Girl in a Forest By Elline Lipkin Trio House Press | 2025 | 86 pages    n Elline Lipkin’s book of poetry, Girl in a Forest, Gretel, from the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale, discovers her body and finds...

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Katherine Shehadeh's powerful Letter to America poem, with audio, is "Lessons from Holocausts (after the Florida Attorney General Tried to Cancel Our Conference)." terrain.org/2026/poetry/lett… #poetry #poem #poet #politicalpoetry #lettertoamerica #muslim #florida #racism

Letter to America by Katherine Shehadeh

Lessons from Holocausts (after the Florida Attorney General Tried to Cancel Our Conference) Alhamdulillah is the first thing my people taught me to say when beat down—as they often are—by the wind,...

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Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad's beautiful love poem "Ode to Orbit" spins and rolls and wheels and twirls, like the poet herself. Don't miss this beauty. terrain.org/2026/poetry/mehr… #poet #poetry #poem #farsi #love #lovepoem #orbit #attraction #space #stars

One Poem by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

Ode to Orbit Specifically, to the Farsi doret begardam, around you, I turn or let me circle you or empathize with you or tend to your need or I would do anything for you, it is the cosmic sparkle of...

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Geneva Toland reviews Singing Under Snow, finding it "a must-read collection of Anne Haven McDonnell’s most stirring, urgent, and deeply moving work." terrain.org/2026/reviews-rea… #review #book #newbook #poetry

Cultivating Mycelial Intimacy: Anne Haven McDonnell’s Singing Under Snow

  Singing Under Snow By Anne Haven McDonnell Michigan State University Press | 2026 | 114 pages    Come, here’s a place where the land lies down in deep darkness. This is the invitation that awaits...

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