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Terrain.org is the world's first online literary journal of place. An award-winning environmental magazine, we publish poetry, nonfiction, fiction, artwork, editorials, interviews, reviews, community case studies, and more, all free to access + ad-free.
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"We Who Hold Up the World" by Shaunna Oteka McCovey is an excerpt of Campfire Stories: The Redwood Coast - Tales & Travel Companion, edited by Ilyssa Kyu and Dave Kyu.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/we-who-hold-up-the-world/

#nonfiction #legend #native #story
We Who Hold Up the World - Terrain.org
“We Who Hold Up the World” by Shaunna Oteka McCovey is an excerpt of Campfire Stories: The Redwood Coast - Tales & Travel Companion.
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January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Tucker Coombe reviews Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World and Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/slither-stowaway/

#review #books #rats #snakes #history #naturalhistory
Snakes Versus Rats (Versus Humans) - Terrain.org
Tucker Coombe reviews Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World and Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Jane Wong's lovely poem "Seaview, WA," with audio, reflects as it recalls, considers as it refuses to conclude along a broken beach in Washington.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jane-wong/

#poetry #poet #poem #washington #beach #recovery
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Jane Wong’s lovely poem “Seaview, WA,” with audio, reflects as it recalls, considers as it refuses to conclude along a broken beach in Washington.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Announcing our 2026 Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net nominations, a rich mix of poetry, fiction, nonfiction & artwork. Please join us in congratulating these contributors!

https://www.terrain.org/2025/news/2025-pushcart-best-of-the-net/

#poetry #fiction #nonfiction
Terrain.org’s 2026 Pushcart Prize + Best of the Net Nominations - Terrain.org
Announcing our 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations, a rich mix of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and artwork.
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December 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Ann Leamon reviews Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/attached-to-the-living-world/

#review #poetry #ecopoetry #anthology #poems #climate
A Preparation for Action: Review of Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology - Terrain.org
Ann Leamon reviews Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest winners: Hayden Park for Poetry, Kelly R. McGuire for Nonfiction, and Jay McKenzie for Fiction. Congratulations!

https://www.terrain.org/2025/news/16th-annual-contest-winners/

#contest #fiction #nonfiction #poetry
Terrain.org Announces the Winners of the 16th Annual Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction Contests! - Terrain.org
Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest winners: Hayden Park for Poetry, Kelly R. McGuire for Nonfiction, and Jay McKenzie for Fiction. Congratulations!
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December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Four beautiful poems by Joanna Fuhrman, with audio, from metaphor to imagination, history to indexes of grief. Don't miss these beauties.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/joanna-fuhrman/

#poems #poetry #poet #imagination #history #metaphor
Four Poems by Joanna Fuhrman - Terrain.org
Four beautiful poems by Joanna Fuhrman, with audio: “Sometimes Being Above the Clouds is Not a Metaphor,” “The Last Phone Booth in the World is Booking Appointments Now,” “Jaffe’s Fish Market, 1942,” and “Index to the Encyclopedia of Grief.”
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December 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Joanna Kaufman's "The Field" is a lovely flash essay, with audio, on the wild beauty of just letting it grow...

https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/the-field/

#essay #nonfiction #flashessay #fields #wildflowers #flowers #field #grass #wild
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Joanna Kaufman’s “The Field” is a lovely flash essay, with audio, on the wild beauty of just letting it grow…
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December 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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"What do we tell the water now?" by Lisbeth White is a poetic Letter to America shouted from the shoreline but also from "the horizon of the heart."

https://www.terrain.org/2025/currents/letter-to-america-lisbeth-white/

#lettertoamerica #immigration #detention #justice
What do we tell the water now? - Terrain.org
“What do we tell the water now?” by Lisbeth White is a poetic Letter to America shouted from the shoreline but also from “the horizon of the heart.”
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December 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Thank you all for your generosity in our Terrain.org online auction and fundraiser! Between and donations we raised more than $12,000 to pay contributors. Winners and donors, we will follow up with you this weekend to connect you. Thank you again!
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Terrain.org is an online environmental magazine of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, editorials, interviews, reviews, Unsprawl case studies, and art since 1998.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Closing tonight at 10 pm ET: Our online auction & fundraiser. Amazing items & experiences, from a rare Wendell Berry broadside to NM residency to workshops & manuscript reviews to walks, hikes & meals & more. Bid now!

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December 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Agata Antonow's "Three Ways of Mourning" is a searing flash fiction story told from the perspective of a daughter whose father has died.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/fiction/three-ways-of-mourning/

#fiction #shortstory #flashfiction #funeral
Three Ways of Mourning - Terrain.org
Agata Antonow’s “Three Ways of Mourning” is a searing flash fiction story told from the perspective of a daughter whose father has died.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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James David May's lovely eulogy "My Patron Saint of Distance" is in honor of his murdered high school running coach. Read and listen now.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/james-davis-may/

#poetry #poem #poet #running #memory #murder #death
One Poem by James Davis May - Terrain.org
James David May’s lovely eulogy “My Patron Saint of Distance,” with audio, is in honor of his murdered high school running coach.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Sandra Meek's epic four-movement poem "Concerto Grosso for Ghost Forests" on the loss of place is the poetic equivalent of a rich orchestral piece.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/sandra-meek-3/

#poem #poetry #poet #music #ghosttrees #ecopoetry
One Poem in Four Movements by Sandra Meek - Terrain.org
“I Couldn’t Name What Can’t be Named” is a lovely new poem, with audio, by central Washington’s Cynthia Neely.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Iris Jamahl Dunkle's "Dark Room: An Inventory" is a beautiful, haunting braided essay on family, memory, illness, abduction, and a fractured childhood.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/dark-room-an-inventory/

#essay #nonfiction #family
Dark Room: An Inventory - Terrain.org
Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s “Dark Room: An Inventory” is a beautiful, haunting braided essay on family, memory, illness, abduction, and a fractured childhood.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Looking Out from the Inscape of the Self: An interview with poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, by Elizabeth Jacobson.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/interviews/inscape-elizabeth-bradfield/

#interview #poetry #ecopoetry #capecod #writing #naturalist #books #poets
Looking Out from the Inscape of the Self: An Interview with Elizabeth Bradfield - Terrain.org
Looking Out from the Inscape of the Self: An interview with poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, by Elizabeth Jacobson.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about how place and the natural world informs their writing and their approach to shaping individual essays into a book-length collection. We chat about craft, cows, cultivating awe in our daily lives . . . and beer. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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"I once taught a girl to paint the ocean with pastels,
which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed,
an open mouth."

This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change.

Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!

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One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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One of the fund-raising auction items for @terrainorg.bsky.social is a fly fishing trip with Joe Wilkins. If only I lived closer to Oregon I'd buy that twice. app.galabid.com/terrainorg-2...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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buoyant in a sea that does not know itself, only / that it wants
December 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Queer elder poet Subhaga Crystal Bacon's sobering Letter to America poem is "Anti-Trans Legislation at What Feels Like the End of the World."

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-bacon/

#poem #poet #poetry #trans #exhaustion
Letter to America by Subhaga Crystal Bacon - Terrain.org
Queer elder poet Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s sobering Letter to America poem is “Anti-Trans Legislation at What Feels Like the End of the World.”
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November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jared-beloff/

#poem #poetry #poet #water #coast #swimming
One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: “Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” a gorgeous, haunting poem.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder reviews Martha Park's World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After, a Foreword Reviews Best of 2025 selection.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/world-without-end/

#review #book #essays #climatecrisis #future
Reckoning with a Transforming World: Uneasy Paradoxes of Parenting Through Climate Crisis - Terrain.org
Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder reviews Martha Park’s World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After, a Foreword Reviews Best of 2025 selection.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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"The Jaguar Craze" is an excerpt of James Campbell's newest fascinating nonfiction book, Heart of the Jaguar.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/the-jaguar-craze/

#nonfiction #book #excerpt #jaguar #jaguars #conversation #wildlife #predators #hunting
The Jaguar Craze: An Excerpt of Heart of the Jaguar - Terrain.org
“The Jaguar Craze” is an excerpt of James Campbell’s newest fascinating nonfiction book, Heart of the Jaguar.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM