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Behold: the superb lyrebird, king of freestyle!
The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
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The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Behold: the superb lyrebird, king of freestyle!
The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
orionmagazine.org/article/supe...
The latest animal profile from Kathleen Yale, this time for Orion’s hip-hop issue.
orionmagazine.org/article/supe...
Today, on Giving Tuesday, Orion is grateful to all our donors who have made a gift this year to support impactful environmental storytelling. If you haven’t donated yet, there's still time! Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today, on Giving Tuesday, Orion is grateful to all our donors who have made a gift this year to support impactful environmental storytelling. If you haven’t donated yet, there's still time! Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
That cover 😍
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
That cover 😍
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
Know any book lovers? We just released the second edition of one of Orion's most popular anthologies, Earthly Love, just in time for the holidays. Support small business this Small Business Saturday. Get yours at the link here. orionmagazine.org/product/eart...
As gift-giving season kicks off, remember Orion on Giving Tuesday—today, tomorrow, or anytime before midnight on December 2. Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes as a bonus. Donate at this link: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As gift-giving season kicks off, remember Orion on Giving Tuesday—today, tomorrow, or anytime before midnight on December 2. Plus, if you give $100 more, you’ll receive one of our sweet new totes as a bonus. Donate at this link: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Join our community of carers for the planet by donating to Orion.
Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Join our community of carers for the planet by donating to Orion.
Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
Gifts of all sizes are welcome and needed. If you make a gift of $100 or more, you can choose to receive our new tote, ONLY available in 2025 through our Giving Tuesday campaign! Donate here: orionmagazine.org/giving-tuesd...
From our Autumn 2025 issue, THE NATURAL RHYTHMS OF HIP-HOP.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
From our Autumn 2025 issue, THE NATURAL RHYTHMS OF HIP-HOP.
Read more: orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
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Applications close TODAY!
🥕 Write about food with Kate Lebo
🌏 Write about climate with Maria Pinto
✏️ Investigate your own style with Jennifer Landretti
🌱 Generate climate poetry with Jessica Abughattas
🕸️ Write through connection with Eiren Caffall
More: orionmagazine.org/events-works...
🥕 Write about food with Kate Lebo
🌏 Write about climate with Maria Pinto
✏️ Investigate your own style with Jennifer Landretti
🌱 Generate climate poetry with Jessica Abughattas
🕸️ Write through connection with Eiren Caffall
More: orionmagazine.org/events-works...
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Applications close TODAY!
🥕 Write about food with Kate Lebo
🌏 Write about climate with Maria Pinto
✏️ Investigate your own style with Jennifer Landretti
🌱 Generate climate poetry with Jessica Abughattas
🕸️ Write through connection with Eiren Caffall
More: orionmagazine.org/events-works...
🥕 Write about food with Kate Lebo
🌏 Write about climate with Maria Pinto
✏️ Investigate your own style with Jennifer Landretti
🌱 Generate climate poetry with Jessica Abughattas
🕸️ Write through connection with Eiren Caffall
More: orionmagazine.org/events-works...
Just two days left to get those applications in 👉 orionmagazine.org/events-works...
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just two days left to get those applications in 👉 orionmagazine.org/events-works...
Don't miss this application window! Whether you're a poet or a creative writer, we have FIVE writers' workshop options for you. (Not a writer? Send this to a friend who's been tinkering with something!) Deadline to apply is Nov 15. (Thread 👇)
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November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Don't miss this application window! Whether you're a poet or a creative writer, we have FIVE writers' workshop options for you. (Not a writer? Send this to a friend who's been tinkering with something!) Deadline to apply is Nov 15. (Thread 👇)
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Botanical art by Hillary Waters Fayle
Featured in Orion's Autumn 2024 issue 🍂
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Featured in Orion's Autumn 2024 issue 🍂
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November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Botanical art by Hillary Waters Fayle
Featured in Orion's Autumn 2024 issue 🍂
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Featured in Orion's Autumn 2024 issue 🍂
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Ledger art—narrative art painted or drawn on accounting ledgers—is an art tradition that developed in Plains tribes when the buffalo hide traditionally used for painting became scarce. Artist John Isaiah Pepion keeps the tradition alive in his work.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Ledger art—narrative art painted or drawn on accounting ledgers—is an art tradition that developed in Plains tribes when the buffalo hide traditionally used for painting became scarce. Artist John Isaiah Pepion keeps the tradition alive in his work.
orionmagazine.org/article/blac...
orionmagazine.org/article/blac...
“And its song, my freight.”
‘Prayer for When I’m Lost’ by Patrick Rosal, in Orion’s Autumn 2025 issue
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‘Prayer for When I’m Lost’ by Patrick Rosal, in Orion’s Autumn 2025 issue
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November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“And its song, my freight.”
‘Prayer for When I’m Lost’ by Patrick Rosal, in Orion’s Autumn 2025 issue
orionmagazine.org/article/pray...
‘Prayer for When I’m Lost’ by Patrick Rosal, in Orion’s Autumn 2025 issue
orionmagazine.org/article/pray...
Invest in your creativity. Start the new year with an Orion online writers' workshop. Applications are OPEN until November 15. Submit your writing! We want to meet you. See what's open at the link right here 👉 orionmagazine.org/events-works...
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Invest in your creativity. Start the new year with an Orion online writers' workshop. Applications are OPEN until November 15. Submit your writing! We want to meet you. See what's open at the link right here 👉 orionmagazine.org/events-works...
Art by Harmonia Rosales, featured in Orion's Autumn 2024 issue.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Art by Harmonia Rosales, featured in Orion's Autumn 2024 issue.
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What you’re looking at here is one of Monica Hairston O’Connell’s “grief cakes.” For her, during the many hardships of 2020 and in the wake of the loss of both her mother and her bakery, the kitchen was a place to process and grieve.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What you’re looking at here is one of Monica Hairston O’Connell’s “grief cakes.” For her, during the many hardships of 2020 and in the wake of the loss of both her mother and her bakery, the kitchen was a place to process and grieve.
orionmagazine.org/article/blm-...
orionmagazine.org/article/blm-...
To ease those Daylight Saving Time blues.
'Night' by Dorianne Laux in Orion magazine, 2019.
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'Night' by Dorianne Laux in Orion magazine, 2019.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
To ease those Daylight Saving Time blues.
'Night' by Dorianne Laux in Orion magazine, 2019.
orionmagazine.org/article/night/
'Night' by Dorianne Laux in Orion magazine, 2019.
orionmagazine.org/article/night/
"And when I walk among ghost pipes, their little /
spectral music in the dark wood quickens my heart: /
song of a moment, the risky road yes taken /
to desire, escape. The day that changed everything."
— from "Ghost Pipes" by Barbara Kingsolver, in Orion magazine.
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spectral music in the dark wood quickens my heart: /
song of a moment, the risky road yes taken /
to desire, escape. The day that changed everything."
— from "Ghost Pipes" by Barbara Kingsolver, in Orion magazine.
orionmagazine.org/article/ghos...
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"And when I walk among ghost pipes, their little /
spectral music in the dark wood quickens my heart: /
song of a moment, the risky road yes taken /
to desire, escape. The day that changed everything."
— from "Ghost Pipes" by Barbara Kingsolver, in Orion magazine.
orionmagazine.org/article/ghos...
spectral music in the dark wood quickens my heart: /
song of a moment, the risky road yes taken /
to desire, escape. The day that changed everything."
— from "Ghost Pipes" by Barbara Kingsolver, in Orion magazine.
orionmagazine.org/article/ghos...
COVER REVEAL! Our Autumn issue, THE NATURAL RHYTHMS OF HIP-HOP, is almost at your doorstep.
This issue is all about the role of hip-hop: in our imaginations, in our sense of place, in how it reflects the human/nonhuman rhythms of the world.
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This issue is all about the role of hip-hop: in our imaginations, in our sense of place, in how it reflects the human/nonhuman rhythms of the world.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
COVER REVEAL! Our Autumn issue, THE NATURAL RHYTHMS OF HIP-HOP, is almost at your doorstep.
This issue is all about the role of hip-hop: in our imaginations, in our sense of place, in how it reflects the human/nonhuman rhythms of the world.
orionmagazine.org/product/subs...
This issue is all about the role of hip-hop: in our imaginations, in our sense of place, in how it reflects the human/nonhuman rhythms of the world.
orionmagazine.org/product/subs...
Today is the LAST DAY to submit for our cetaceans issue, coming next summer! Get those whale and dolphin ideas in ASAP.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Today is the LAST DAY to submit for our cetaceans issue, coming next summer! Get those whale and dolphin ideas in ASAP.
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"where did you go, little rag, / shape of black purpose?"
From 'Bat' by Cleopatra Mathis, in Orion, 2009.
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From 'Bat' by Cleopatra Mathis, in Orion, 2009.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"where did you go, little rag, / shape of black purpose?"
From 'Bat' by Cleopatra Mathis, in Orion, 2009.
orionmagazine.org/article/bat/
From 'Bat' by Cleopatra Mathis, in Orion, 2009.
orionmagazine.org/article/bat/
A weed is simply “a plant in the wrong place.”
On weeds, borders, and belonging.
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On weeds, borders, and belonging.
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October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A weed is simply “a plant in the wrong place.”
On weeds, borders, and belonging.
orionmagazine.org/article/gian...
On weeds, borders, and belonging.
orionmagazine.org/article/gian...
Our love for whales 🤝 your love for whales
The submission window for our Summer 2026 issue about whales and other cetaceans is open! Guidelines and where to pitch are all at the link below.
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The submission window for our Summer 2026 issue about whales and other cetaceans is open! Guidelines and where to pitch are all at the link below.
orionmagazine.org/submission-g...
October 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Our love for whales 🤝 your love for whales
The submission window for our Summer 2026 issue about whales and other cetaceans is open! Guidelines and where to pitch are all at the link below.
orionmagazine.org/submission-g...
The submission window for our Summer 2026 issue about whales and other cetaceans is open! Guidelines and where to pitch are all at the link below.
orionmagazine.org/submission-g...
“Where’s the border between our bodies and our stuff? If our bodies contain billions of bacteria, ancestral codes, rocks, and minerals, how did we ever come to believe in the idea of a singular self?”
—Samantha Hunt
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—Samantha Hunt
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October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Where’s the border between our bodies and our stuff? If our bodies contain billions of bacteria, ancestral codes, rocks, and minerals, how did we ever come to believe in the idea of a singular self?”
—Samantha Hunt
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
—Samantha Hunt
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What are virtues in a time of runaway global warming? What are crimes?
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orionmagazine.org/article/one-...
October 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
What are virtues in a time of runaway global warming? What are crimes?
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orionmagazine.org/article/one-...
The submission window for our Summer 2026 issue about whales and other cetaceans is open! Guidelines and where to pitch are all at the link below.
orionmagazine.org/submission-g...
orionmagazine.org/submission-g...
October 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The submission window for our Summer 2026 issue about whales and other cetaceans is open! Guidelines and where to pitch are all at the link below.
orionmagazine.org/submission-g...
orionmagazine.org/submission-g...