Monthly Archives: February 2011
Desert Psalms Poems by Seth Jani Seven CirclePress, 2009 Reviewed by Christopher Woods When we are taken from familiar surroundings, we are often left confused, even lost. But there is another aspect to being separated from what is a usual routine, a favorite room in a comfortable house, or even a steady and sound relationship. [...]
In the third week of March or thereabouts Terrain.org will launch our 27th issue: Entropy. Here’s a preview of some of the really wonderful work it contains: Guest Editorial by Tara Lahan Interview with James Howard Kunstler Poetry by Jame Engelhardt, Kelly Madigan Erlandson, Frank Gallimore, Jennifer Wallace, Katherine Riegel, Genevieve Kaplan, Amanda Whiting, Mark [...]
The Hermit’s Place By Bernard Quetchenbach Wild Leaf Press, New Haven, CT 88 pages A quick look through the contents of Bernard Quetchenbach’s book The Hermit’s Place might leave you overwhelmed by the use of the word “hermit.” All 63 poems in this collection use the word in the title, but that establishes a sense [...]
The first TedxTucson event took place in December 2010, focusing on Tucson’s green economy and innovations to help stimulate sustainable energy and technological advances. In this video, Dave Follette takes a look at Tucson’s prime location in the heart of sun country and explores the current limitations of solar energy. He goes on to suggest [...]
The Oscar-nominated documentary film Sun Come Up follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders, a peaceful community in the South Pacific turned environmental refugees. Threatened by rising seas, they are forced to make the difficult decision to find a new home. Sun Come Up is launching a House Raiser campaign to build off the momentum of [...]
Like stats? Here’s a way to explore the numbers visually. Hans Rosling (featured on BBC Four) takes us through changes in personal wealth as it relates to lifespan for more than 200 countries over the course of 200 years — all in a span of four minutes. What is the correlation between lifespan and personal [...]
Gustavo Esteva wrote in The Guardian yesterday about the past efforts of the Mexican government to reduce the number of peasants in the country. The peasant communities were, and still are, directly connected to the production of local food. When the government cut programs that supported peasant farming communities, the number of peasants began to [...]
Terrain.org’s Editor-in-Chief, Simmons Buntin, made the trip to AWP’s annual conference. This year it was held in Washington D.C., attracting thousands of writers from around the country and beyond. I was able to catch up with Simmons on the last day of the conference to talk with him about AWP 2011. Here are some audio [...]
March 31, 1942 – December 27, 2010 Yesterday I learned that the photographer Rick Maloof passed away on December 27th. I didn’t know Rick well but did have the good fortune of spending a day with him and his wife Joan, a Terrain.org contributor, up in the old-growth rainforests of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in [...]