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Terrain.org Image Issue Now Live!

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By , October 3, 2011 9:20 am
Village boys with their horse and cart.

Village boys with their horse and cart, from Julian Hoffman's "Faith in a Forgotten Place," the winner of the 2nd Annual Contest in Nonfiction. Photo by Julian Hoffman.

Issue No. 28 — “Image” — features an interactive mix of literary and technical contributions, including the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction winners of our 2nd Annual Contest; our second image-filled online poetry chapbook; a new column by Elizabeth Dodd; a hypertext narrative gallery on art and the Russian landscape; and much more:

Editorials

  • Guest Editorial: “Defining the City: On Being and Becoming” by Scott Doyon, Principal, PlaceMakers
  • Almanac: “Red Buffalo, Black Butterflies” by Elizabeth Dodd
  • Plein Air: “Home” by Deborah Fries
  • Field Notes: “Casting Off, About, and Somewhere in Between” by Kathryn Miles
  • Bull Hill: “The Picture of a Song Freezes the Music of Nature”by David Rothenberg, with audio
  • A Stone’s Throw: “Geographies of the Interior” by Lauret Savoy

Interview

To Know a Place

UnSprawl Case Study

  • Serenbe in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, by Megan Kimble

Essays

Articles

ARTerrain Gallery

Poetry

Fiction

Reviews

View our dynamic new issue at www.terrain.org.

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Terrain.org Issue No. 27 Now Live

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By , March 28, 2011 12:14 am

David Perry's Tomatillo, from this issue's ARTerrain GalleryTheme: Entropy

Issue No. 27 features a rich and surprising mix of literary, technical, and artistic contributions, all with eloquent responses to entropy — a measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system:

Editorials

  • Guest Editorial
    “Crossroads if a Water Crisis” by Tara Lohan, Senior Editor of AlterNet and Author of Water Matters
  • Plein Air
    “All Quiet at the Jersey Shore” by Deborah Fries
  • Field Notes
    “Delight and Disorder” by Kathryn Miles, our new columnist
  • Bull Hill
    “Order and Chaos and the Clash of the Titans of Modern Art and Science” by David Rothenberg
  • A Stone’s Throw
    “Desegregating Nature” by Lauret Savoy

Interview

To Know a Place

UnSprawl Case Study

Essays

Articles

ARTerrain Gallery

Poetry

Fiction

Reviews

View our dynamic new issue at www.terrain.org.

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Terrain.org “Entropy” Issue Preview

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By , February 22, 2011 10:07 pm

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 Tredinnick, Christopher Locke, Peter Huggins, Natalie Young, Wally Smith, Maryann Corbett, Anna Catone, Robert Hill Long, and Jill McCabe Johnson
  • Essays by Lisa Bickmore (video essay), Ana Maria Spagna, Liz Scheid, Erik Hoffner (photo essay), Susan Carol Hauser, and Julian Hoffman
  • Articles on America’s food production system, a small-town perspective on high-speed rail, sharing the commons, getting beneath the economy’s bottom line, confronting invasive cedar in the American Southwest, and a rich narrative photo exploration of a piano graveyard in Western Australia
  • Fiction by Nels Hanson, Teague Bohlen (flash fiction with images), Jennifer Duffield White, and Anna Barto
  • ARTerrain gallery by David Perry
  • UnSprawl case study: Rockville Town Square, Maryland
  • Regular columns by David Rothenberg, Deborah Fries, and Lauret Savoy, and a new regular column beginning this issue by Kathryn Miles
  • And reviews, featured link, interactive audio, stunning images, and more!

Look for the new issue in about a month!

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Announcing Terrain.org Issue No. 26

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By , October 14, 2010 12:53 am

Earth from spaceThe editors of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments are pleased to announce the launch of our 26th issue, “The Signal in the Noise,” at http://www.terrain.org.

Issue No. 26 features a rich mix of literary and technical contributions, including the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction winners of our inaugural contest, the new “To Know a Place” feature, and more:

Editorials

  • Guest Editorial: “To Re-imagine the Place of Humans in the Natural World” by Kathleen Dean Moore, Founding Director, The Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word
  • The Literal Landscape: “Dirty Words on Mount St. Helens” with Photo Gallery by Simmons B. Buntin
  • Plein Air: “Open Book, Field, Mind: Life Lessons Learned in Minneapollis” by Deborah Fries
  • Bull Hill: “The WhaleKit Machine: On Tour with the Karelian Magicians of Glitch” by David Rothenberg
  • A Stone’s Throw: “Bedrock: Coming to a Language of Earth” by Lauret Savoy

Interview

To Know a Place

UnSprawl Case Study

Essays

Articles

ARTerrain Gallery

Poetry

Fiction

Reviews

  • “The Hard and the Sweet”: Wendy Burk Reviews Girl on a Bridge, Poems by Suzanne Frischkorn
  • “Close to Home”: Julie Wnuk Reviews The Circumference of Home: One Man’s Quest for a Radically Local Life, by Kurt Hoelting
  • “A Desert Urchin”: Andrew C. Gottlieb Reviews Urchin to Follow, Poems by Dorine Jennette
  • “A Girl and Her Dog Consider the Storm”: Jennifer McStotts Reviews The Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate Change: A Complete Visual Guide, by Juliane L. Fry, Hans-F Graf, Richard Grotjahn, Marilyn Raphael, Clive Saunders, and Richard Whitaker

View our dynamic new issue at http://www.terrain.org.

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Issue No. 26 Preview

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By , September 2, 2010 12:21 am

The editors of Terrain.org are pleased to preview the upcoming issue, our 26th, with the theme of “The Signal in the Noise.” We also want you to know that the issue launch date has moved back three weeks — to October 11th — to allow for systems upgrades (i.e., the editor-in-chief’s computer died and a new one is on the way; since he’s also the web guy, there is some downtime).

So what’s in the upcoming issue?

  • Guest editorial by Kathleen Dean Moore, Spring Creek Project
  • Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming
  • Visual and acoustic art by Andrea Polli
  • Poetry contest winner Laura-Gray Street and finalists Reeves Keyworth, Sara Talpos, Julie Hanson, Tom Daley, and Davi Walders
  • Poetry also by Eric Paul Shaffer, Laurie Klein, Ben Howard, Sherry O’Keefe, Mary Cisper, Derek Sheffield, Cynthia Huntington, Jason Myers, Jeffrey Thomson, Emily Wall, E. Louise Beach, Jeff Newberry, Nick Ripatrazone, Paula Sergi, Nickolas Butler, and Janine DeBaise
  • Nonfiction contest winner Elizabeth Dodd and finalist Michael Palmer
  • Photo essays by John R. Campbell on the Andrews Forest Residency in the Oregon Cascades and Gregory McNamee and Stephen Strom on what makes a desert
  • Other essays by Russ J. Van Paepeghem, and Sara Loewen, who introduces our new feature  called “To Know a Place”
  • Fiction contest winner Andrew Wingfield and finalists Kevin Catalano and Jasmon Drain
  • Other fiction by Debbie Weingarten, Frances Kerridge, and Lucy Jane Bledsoe
  • Articles on bringing employment centers back to neighborhoods, the literary legacy of the European starling in North America, the policies of identity and suppression in the burning forests of the American West, and social justice from Hurricane Katrina
  • A photo article by Jolie Kaytes and Paul Charpentier on permaculture as the ecology of home
  • Plus reviews, regular editorials, and more!

Whew! We hope you’ll find — as we know we will — that Issue No. 26 is worth the wait.

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Inaugural Poetry Contest Finalists and Winner Announced

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By , August 27, 2010 10:33 am

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is pleased to announce the finalists and winner of our inaugural poetry contest, judged by acclaimed writer and publisher Jessie Lendennie:

  • Winner: Laura-Gray Street for the long poem “Goya’s Dog”
  • Finalist: Reeves Keyworth for “Summer Evening, the West Side”
  • Finalist: Sara Talpos for “Mammoth,” “350,” and “Body of Evidence”
  • Finalist: Julie Hanson for “They are Widening the Road” and “Allocation”
  • Finalist: Tom Daley for “The Woman in the Pamet River,” “Overpass,” and “Theology”
  • Finalist: Davi Walders for “Not in ideas…” and “The Path”

Laura-Gray Street is the winner of the Terrain.org inaugural poetry contest.Here’s what Lendennie had to say of the winner:

The winner has to be “Goya’s Dog.” I like all the others very much, but this one is the most intriguing and challenging. It’s intellectually satisfying in the way the poet parallels the quantum and the physical. Love the use of paint both actual and metaphorical, and that special dog, of course!

Laura-Gray Street will receive the cash prize of $250 and publication in our forthcoming issue, No. 26, with the theme of “The Signal in the Noise.” The issue launches at www.terrain.org on September 20, 2010. The issue will also include poems by all the finalists: Reeves Keyworth, Sara Talpos, Julie Hanson, Tom Daley, and Davi Walders.

Congratulations to Laura-Gray, Reeves, Sara, Julie, Tom, and David, and many thanks to those who submitted to our first contest. We had a wonderful array of poems from which to choose.

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Inaugural Fiction Contest Finalists and Winner Announced

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By , August 26, 2010 12:12 am

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is pleased to announce the finalists and winner of our inaugural fiction contest, judged by acclaimed writer and teacher Aurelie Sheehan:

  • Winner: Andrew Wingfield for “Right of Way”
  • Finalist: Kevin Catalano for “Into the Lake”
  • Finalist: Jasmon Drain for “Wet Paper Grass”
Andrew Wingfield

Andrew Wingfield is the winner of the Terrain.org inaugural fiction contest.

Here’s what Sheehan had to say of the winner:

“Right of Way” is filled with microbursts of surprise, the fine prose unfurling a nuanced, but powerfully directed story with tension and drama. I appreciated the underlying wit in the narrative, which leavens the increasing snarl of moral compromise.  A story dwelling in the complexities of motherhood and compassion, “Right of Way” also explores the tension between the wild of the right of way and its occupants, and the tamer, tortured civilizers.

Andrew Wingfield will receive the cash prize of $250 and publication in our forthcoming issue, No. 26, with the theme of “The Signal in the Noise.” The issue launches at www.terrain.org on September 20, 2010. The issue will also include the finalist stories by Kevin Catalano and Jasmon Drain.

Congratulations to Andrew, Kevin, and Jasmon, and many thanks to those who submitted to our first contest. We had a wonderful array of stories from which to choose.

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The finalists and winner of the Terrain.org inaugural contest in poetry (judged by Jessie Lendennie) will be announced on the evening of August 26th.

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Inaugural Nonfiction Contest Finalists and Winner Announced

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By , August 24, 2010 1:56 pm

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is pleased to announce the finalists and winner of our inaugural nonfiction contest, judged by acclaimed writer, musician, composer, and philosopher-naturalist David Rothenberg:

  • Winner: Elizabeth Dodd for “Sinuous”
  • Finalist: Kelly Hayes-Raitt for “Still Alive”
  • Finalist: Michael Palmer for “Kinds of Quiet”
Elizabeth Dodd beside a petroglyph in Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Photo by David Rintoul.

Elizabeth Dodd beside a petroglyph in Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Photo by David Rintoul.

Here’s what Rothenberg had to say of the finalists and winner:

It has been a pleasure to read the three top entries of the nonfiction category of Terrain.org’s annual writing contest. “Still Alive” presents a haunting, gritty, honest picture of the kind of troubles and confusion the Iraq War has brought to people in the midst of it, a straight story of the kind we rarely get to hear in media-saturated America. The life of an over-caffeinated Brigham Young student in “Kinds of Quiet” who becomes a vacuum specialist is funny, dark, and painfully real in a wandering, wonderful way. But it is “Sinuous” that impresses me the most, with its movement from the direct experience of a snake-shaped petroglyph to a whole history of engagement from archeology, legend, tradition, and literature right into the moment of our attempt to look straight at an ancient image and try to make contemporary sense of it, finding the signal in the noise of history, record, and information.  It is always hard to combine writing based on raw personal experience of something mysterious and magical with all the reading we can do to offer experts’ visions of what our own encounter might actually mean. This author has combined these two elements seamlessly, so it is to this piece that I award this year’s first prize, and congratulations as well to the two fine runners-up.

Elizabeth Dodd will receive the cash prize of $250 and publication in our forthcoming issue, No. 26, with the theme of “The Signal in the Noise.” The issue launches at www.terrain.org on September 20, 2010. The issue will also include Michael Palmer’s essay.

Congratulations to Elizabeth, Michael, and Kelly Hayes-Raitt, and many thanks to those who submitted to our first contest. We had a wonderful array of essays from which to choose.

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The finalists and winner of the Terrain.org inaugural contest in fiction (judged by Aurelie Sheehan) will be announced on this blog on Wednesday, and the finalists and winner of the inaugural contest in poetry (judged by Jessie Lendennie) will be announced within the next week.

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Terrain.org Submission Period Closed

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By , August 2, 2010 9:46 am

Terrain.org’s submission period — for Issue No. 26, “The Signal in the Noise” and other issues — is now closed. Look for the new issue in mid-September, including the winners and select finalists of our inaugural contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, plus another diverse and exciting collection of literature and technical contributions, including an in-depth interview with poet, essayist, and teacher Alison Hawthorne Deming.

All contestants as well as regular submitters can expect to be notified on or before September 1, and our reading period will open again on October 1, 2010.

Thank you.

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Now Live: Terrain.org Issue No. 25 ~ Virtually There

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By , March 31, 2010 1:13 am

Inspiration in Dockside Green.

Inspiration, the first commercial building at Dockside Green in Victoria, British Columbia. Photo courtesy Busby Perkins+Will Architects Co.

The editors of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments at http://www.terrain.org are pleased to announce the launch of our 25th issue: Virtually There.

One of our largest and most dynamic issues to date features:

Columns

  • Guest Editorial: “Virtually Unconscious: Dreams of Escape” by Renee Lertzman, Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities and Sustainability, Portland State University
  • Simmons B. Buntin’s The Literal Landscape: “Songbird”
  • Deborah Fries’s Plein Air: “Sharing the Edge of the Sixth Shore: Artists and Scientists Converge at Lake Clifton”
  • David Rothenberg’s Bull Hill: “The BluRay Squirrel and the HighDef Squid”
  • Lauret Savoy’s A Stone’s Throw: “Winter Leaves”

Interview

  • Patrick Burns interviews author Padma Viswanathan

UnSprawl Case Study

  • Dockside Green in Victoria, British Columbia
    by Ken Pirie

Poetry

  • Poetry in text and audio by Sara Talpos, Karen Schubert, Patricia Clark, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Abe Louise Young, Linda Umans, Arianne Zwartjes, Jamison Crabtree, Sandy Longhorn, Matthew James Babcock, Robin Chapman, Tim Bellows, C. J. Sage, Paul Hostovsky, Lyn Lifshin, Deborah Fries, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Julie L. Moore, Hugh Fox, and Fran Markover

Essays

  • “How to Draw a Glass Mountain: Los Angeles and the Architecture of Segregation,” a hypertext photo essay by Aisha Sloan
  • “The Book of Water,” by Joe Wilkins, with audio
  • “The Road to Crownpoint,” essay by Kurt Caswell and illustration by Susan Leigh Tomlinson
  • “The Place and the Photograph,” by Lex Runciman, with Stonehenge Photo Gallery
  • “Four Dispatches from the Interface,” by Charles Goodrich, with Audio

Articles

  • “Planning a Post-Carbon World: The City of North Vancouver and the 100 Year Plan,” by Patrick Condon
  • “The Digital Cathedral in the Age of Democratic Sustainability,” by Peter W. Bardaglio
  • “Isn’t it Time to Dig Vertical Farming?” by Chris Bradford
  • “Open Data and Government 2.0,” by Nate Berg
  • “Virtuality: The Splenda of Existence,” by Rachel Shaw

Fiction

  • “Machete Maneuvers,” by Rachel Furey, with audio
  • “The Glory of Ned Wiley,” by Braden Hepner
  • “Holding Patterns,” by Bette Lynch Husted
  • “Estrella, Extranjero,” by Chavawn Kelley

ARTerrain Gallery

  • Ten art quilts of textile and mixed media by Jan Rickman

Reviews

  • Jennifer McStotts reviews The Seasons on Henry’s Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm, by Terra Brockman
  • Simmons B. Buntin reviews Animal Logic, by Richard Barnes, and Earth Forms, by Stephen Strom
  • Julie Wnuk reviews When the Rains Come: A Naturalist’s Year in the Sonoran Desert, by John Alcock
  • Stephanie Eve Boone reviews Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, by Francine Prose

Read the entire issue, available in both HTML and PDF formats, online now at http://www.terrain.org.

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