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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
"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
"I Couldn't Name What Can't be Named" is a lovely new poem, with audio, by central Washington's Cynthia Neely.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/cynthia-neely/

#poem #poet #poetry #names #trees #wind #son #children #questions #sky #stars #night
One Poem by Cynthia Neely - 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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November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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New in @terrainorg.bsky.social, a conversation about western rivers by three writers who know what it's like to raft, explore, study, and love them. @rosemcmackin.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
Water Shapes Everything: A Conversation on Western Rivers - Terrain.org
Zac Podmore, Rose McMackin, and Becca Lawton, who carry Western rivers in their blood, talk about their boating lives, creative bents, and views of moving water.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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“isn’t our silence, too, a kind of shelter?” - Craig Santos Perez
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"Ode to the Fish" by Ellen Bass (with audio) is the fourth in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/ellen-bass-3/

#poem #poetry #poet #fish #ode #coastlines #whales #night
One Poem by Ellen Bass - Terrain.org
“Ode to the Fish” by Ellen Bass (with audio) is the fourth in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"A Sonnet at the Edge of the Reef" by Craig Santos Perez is the third in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/craig-santos-perez-2/

#poem #poetry #poet #sonnet #reef #hawaii #coral #shelter
One Poem by Craig Santos Perez - Terrain.org
“A Sonnet at the Edge of the Reef” by Craig Santos Perez is the third in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"Tecolote" by Jose Hernandez Diaz is the first in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jose-hernandez-diaz/

#poet #poem #poetry #animals #owls #heritage #mexico #myth #memory
One Poem by Jose Hernandez Diaz - Terrain.org
“Tecolote” by Jose Hernandez Diaz is the first in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Zac Podmore, Rose McMackin, and Becca Lawton, who carry Western rivers in their blood, talk about their boating lives, creative bents, and views of moving water.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/interviews/western-rivers/

#interview #water #west #writing #rivers
Water Shapes Everything: A Conversation on Western Rivers - Terrain.org
Zac Podmore, Rose McMackin, and Becca Lawton, who carry Western rivers in their blood, talk about their boating lives, creative bents, and views of moving water.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Eiren Caffall's stunning excerpt of her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, published by Row House Publishing, braids motherhood, chronic illness, and place.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/longfin-inshore-squid/

#nonfiction #illness #motherhood #danger #disease
Longfin Inshore Squid: An Excerpt of The Mourner’s Bestiary - Terrain.org
Eiren Caffall’s stunning excerpt of her memoir The Mourner’s Bestiary, published by Row House Publishing, braids motherhood, chronic illness, and place.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Two poems, with audio, from Nathaniel Perry's new song series: "2 (Song, with Heathen)" and "3 (Song, with Mountain)."

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/nathaniel-perry-3/

#poem #poet #poems #poetry #song #heathen #mountain
Two Poems by Nathaniel Perry - Terrain.org
Two poems, with audio, from Nathaniel Perry’s new song series: “2 (Song, with Heathen)” and “3 (Song, with Mountain).”
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October 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
British author Fiona M. Jones's delightful flash story "Restoration" takes a unique view of the restoration of a cottage in the woods, and what's next.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/fiction/restoration/

#fiction #story #flashfiction #forest #abandoned
Restoration - Terrain.org
British author Fiona M. Jones’s delightful flash story “Restoration” takes a unique view of the restoration of a cottage in the woods, and what’s next.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sunni Brown Wilkinson reviews Laura Stott's The Bear's Mouth: Poems, finding it "grapples with grief and beauty in such a startlingly fresh way."

https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/the-bears-mouth/

#review #book #poetry #poems #bears #loss
Numerous Shores: A Review of Laura Stott’s The Bear’s Mouth - Terrain.org
Sunni Brown Wilkinson reviews Laura Stott’s The Bear’s Mouth: Poems, finding it “grapples with grief and beauty in such a startlingly fresh way.”
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October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Delighted to see the NYT picking up on the incredible 'Threshold 32°F' project that we featured in ARTerrain a few months ago. Congratulations to Debbie Clarke Moderow, Klara Maisch, and Rebecca Hewitt! Link to the full feature in the following post.
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What Happens When the Ice Melts? Three Women in Alaska Are Sounding an Alarm.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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@terrainorg.bsky.social - I am way proud to be in Terrain.org today, in my story about a woman whose muse is the Everglades, a world I have loved over the years. www.terrain.org/2025/fiction...
Muse - Terrain.org
What if you don't choose to be a muse? What if the thing you're a muse for disturbs you? Jennifer Bannan's story "Muse" asks these questions and more.
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September 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I interviewed Elspeth Hay for @terrainorg.bsky.social. We talk about nut trees as a keystone species, the non-existent dividing line between humans and nature, prescribed burns, and how the land needs us as much as we need it (her/ them). Photo courtesy of Elspeth Hay. Link in next comment.
September 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Check out this beautiful interview in @terrainorg.bsky.social with #author Elspeth Hay about #farming, #food, and the future: "we need a new economic system to regenerate life instead of gambling with it." www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
There Is No Line: An Interview with Elspeth Hay - Terrain.org
There Is No Line: Cara Benson interviews Elspeth Hay, author of Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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"[B.J. Hollars has] penned an enduring love letter that resonates through the mysteries of deep time and a world just as mysterious, beautiful, and challenged today," writes Simmons Buntin for @terrainorg.bsky.social.

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October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Submissions are still open for the Sowell Emerging Writers Prize. If you have a nonfiction manuscript, send it in! @terrainorg.bsky.social
terrainorg.submittable.com/submit
#sowellemergingwritersprize2026 #sowellcollection #nonfiction #manuscripts #literature #community #nature #writers #archives
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Once, My Father Showed Me an Arrowhead" is a hauntingly beautiful essay by Sara L. Spurgeon about the death of her father, and so much more, when she was young.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/father-showed-me-an-arrowhead/

#essay #father
Once, My Father Showed Me an Arrowhead - Terrain.org
“Once, My Father Showed Me an Arrowhead” is a hauntingly beautiful essay by Sara L. Spurgeon about the death of her father when she was young.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In her Letter to America poem "Praise song" (with audio), Claire Hermann sings alleluia to the events of the day, finding (or rather, making) rare joy.

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

#poem #poet #lettertoamerica #praise #song #joy
Letter to America by Claire Hermann - Terrain.org
In her Letter to America poem “Praise song” (with audio), Claire Hermann sings alleluia to the events of the day, finding (or rather, making) rare joy.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"Their orders were gruff and strong and enforceable: Go, they said. Now, they said." And so they did, in Holli Cederholm's delightful short short story.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/fiction/go-they-said/

#story #fiction #shortstory #girls #mud #play
Go, They Said - Terrain.org
“Their orders were gruff and strong and enforceable: Go, they said. Now, they said.” And so they did, in Holli Cederholm’s delightful short short story.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM