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"The Patriotic Shortener" is a flash fiction Letter to America and parable by Payton Dodd.
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#fiction #flashfiction #parable #lettertoamerica #story #america
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Jun 15
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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#podcast #greatsaltlake #saltonsea
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Jun 11
Two beautiful new poems of family and place by Suzanne Matson, with audio: "The One in Philipsburg, Montana" and "The One in Garibaldi, Oregon."
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#poetry #poet #poems #montana #oregon #mountains #grasslands #children #sons #family #rural #work
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Jun 8
"Whitewater," a new poem of danger, beauty, life, and love on the river, by Montana poet Scott Davidson.
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#poem #poetry #poet #river #rivers #rafting #whitewater #danger #beauty #risk #adventure #love
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Jun 3
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.
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#poetry #music #livemusic #concerts #instruments #rocknroll #altrock #modestmouse
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Jun 2
GKS Waller reviews Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods by Jennifer Kabat, who invites readers "to live outside ourselves..."
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#naturewriting #review #book
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May 28
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.
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#interview #urban #urbandesign #urbanpolicy #infrastructure
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May 27
Two strange and gorgeous new poems by Jennifer K. Sweeney, with audio: "Fairy Ring" and "Formation."
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#poetry #poems #poet #fairyring #fairyrings #paths #trees #woods #magic #growth #forest #forests #trails
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May 26
In her lovely lyric essay "Tendrils," Nancy Bell weaves science and memory, wonder and strangeness, dreams and possibilities.
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#essay #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #plants #wonder #motherhood #strangeness #theatre #theater #memory #children #stars
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May 25
Congratulations to Annie Wenstrup, Chris Watkins, and Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey for winning the 2026 Terrain.org Editor’s Prizes in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction!
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#prize #award #poetry #nonfiction #fiction #editorsprize
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May 22
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
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May 21
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.
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#poetry #poet #poem #war #vietnam #mekong #napalm #toxins
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May 20
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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May 19
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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May 18
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
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May 15
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
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May 12
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
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