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By Simmons Buntin, 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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By Simmons Buntin, March 31, 2010 1:13 am

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 25^th 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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By Simmons Buntin, September 22, 2009 5:59 am

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments (www.terrain.org) is pleased to announce the launch of Issue No. 24: Borders & Bridges.

Our largest issue yet, interactive contributions include a guest editorial by U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Agritopia as the UnSprawl case study, a long lost interview with poet A. R. Ammons, new poetry features (translations and our first online chapbook, with audio), essays by Christopher Cokinos and Mark Tredinnick, articles on the silence of owls and severing the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, plus new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, reviews, and more.

Check it out now at www.terrain.org — and be sure to add to the conversation with Terrain.org’s new commenting tool for contributions. And then join us at 8 p.m. on September 24^th at the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson for the Issue Launch & Reading, featuring David Rothenberg, Pamela Uschuk, Christopher Cokinos, and Deborah Fries.

Specifically, Issue No. 24 includes:

Columns

• Guest editorial by Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Representative, Arizona’s 8^th Congressional District : Solar is the Bridge to Our Future
• Columns by regular contributors Simmons Buntin, Deborah Fries, David Rothenberg (with image gallery), and Lauret Savoy

Interview

• Philip Fried interviews poet A. R. Ammons (1926-2001); an interview dating back to 1980 yet as timely today as it was 29 years ago

UnSprawl Case Study

• Agritopia in Gilbert, Arizona — Crafted with a sort of evangelical “New Ruralism,” the 166-acre Agritopia neighborhood east of Phoenix mixes gardens, pastures, orchards, restaurants, lush trails, and more with historically inspired homes designed to bring neighbors together.

Essays

• “Night at the World’s Largest Atomic Cannon” by Christopher Cokinos, with audio
• “Body Exposed in the Golden Wind” by Florence Caplow
• “Positioning” by J. David Bell
• “Lee’s Ferry” by Ben Quick
• “Mustering the Sky” by Mark Tredinnick

Articles

• “To Wit, to Woo: The Silence of Owls” by Kathryn Miles
• “Ken Wu and the Fight for Canada’s Remaining Pacific Coast Old-Growth,” with online slideshow, by Joan Maloof and Rick Maloof
• “A Hole in Time” by John Lane
• “A Region of Wounds: Severing the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” by Tom Leskiw

ARTerrain Gallery

• Four series of impromptu sculptures-in-the-wild and studio sculptures by R. L. Croft

Poetry

• Borderland Translations: Tedi Lopéz Mills, translated by Wendy Burk — poems in English and Spanish with audio
• God, Seed: Online chapbook of poetry and images by Rebecca Foust and Lorna Stevens, with audio
• Other poetry (and audio, too) by Pamela Uschuk, Jessica Weintraub, Polly Brown, Linda Parsons Marion, Jenn Blair, Laura Sobbot Ross, J. P. Dancing Bear, Beth Winegarner, Peter Huggins, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, George Moore, Eva Hooker, Scott Edward Anderson, Alison Hawthorne Deming, William Keener, Brett Foster, Thorpe Moeckel, Joe Wilkins, and Sue Swartz

Fiction

• “The Hank Williams Dialogues” by Andrew Wingfield
• “The Garden” by Jaren Watson
• “Stones” by Jeffrey Stevenson

Reviews of…

• A Conservationist Manifesto by Scott Russell Sanders
• The Trouble with Black Boys and Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education by Pedro A. Noguera
• Unexpected Light, poems by C. E. Chaffin
• Crazy Love: New Poems by Pamela Uschuk

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By Simmons Buntin, September 12, 2009 1:25 am

The next issue of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments will launch by September 21. With the theme of “Borders & Bridges,” it’s another outstanding issue featuring, among others:

• A long interview by Philip Fried with the poet A. R. Ammons
• Essays on the world’s largest atomic cannon, suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge, traveling by GPS, being a single father in the West, and the Australian pastoral
• Articles on the sudden increase in daytime owl sightings, Ken Wu and the fight for Canada’s remaining Pacific Coast old-growth (with online slideshow), archaeology in South Carolina, and U.S.-Mexico border woes
• Our most comprehensive poetry issue yet, featuring our first online chapbook (poems and images), our first translations (Wendy Burk translates Tedi Lopez Mills), and poetry by Pamela Uschuk, Alison Hawthorne Deming, J. P. Dancing Bear, Peter Huggins, Jessica Weintraub, and many others
• Fiction by Andrew Wingfield, Jaren Watson, and Jeffrey Stevenson
• And much more!

So tune in, and stay tuned, at http://www.terrain.org.

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By Simmons Buntin, January 11, 2009 6:38 am

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is pleased to announce the launch of Issue No. 23, with the theme of “Symbiosis,” at http://www.terrain.org.

This issue features an interview with Scott Russell Sanders; essays by Sharman Apt Russell, Stephen Trimble, and Deanne Stillman; articles on Sustainability and the Pringle Creek Community and Saving Coral Reefs; twenty poets with audio; new fiction; columns, including a new regular editorial by Lauret Savoy; and more.

Specifically, this issue of Terrain.org includes:

Guest editorial by Mandy Creighton, Within Reach, titled “Cycling Toward Sustainable Community”

Columns by Simmons B. Buntin (Flare: an online photo gallery of cranes and geese at the Bosque del Apache), Deborah Fries (The Language of Give and Take), David Rothenberg (Does nature need us? Symbiosis as one way to survive), and Lauret Savoy (Placing Washington, D.C., before the Inauguration)

Interview with author Scott Russell Sanders

UnSprawl case study: Plum Creek in Kyle, Texas

Poetry with audio by Aleria Jensen, Janet Smith, Lauren Eggert-Crowe, Greg McBride, Dorine Jennette, Wally Smith, Lori Anderson Moseman, John Hildebidle, Beth Paulson, Andrew C. Gottlieb, Joy Ladin, Dan Stryk, Mary Cisper, Suzanne Roberts, Cynthia Belmont, Rachel Dacus, Jared Pearce, Pianta, C.E. Chaffin, and Michael J. Vaughn

Essays:

• Letter to My Father Concerning the State of the World, by Sharman Apt Russell
• Devil’s Bargains, with online slideshow, by Stephen Trimble
• Educating the Body, by Katherine Jamieson
• Report from Monona County: Mysterious work, with audio, by Kelly Madigan Erlandson
• The Unaccountable Stupidity of Living Things, by Anca Vlasopolos
• Horse Latitudes, by Deanne Stillman

Fiction by Patrick Burns (with audio), Ron Rindo, and Jonathan Dozier-Ezell

Articles:

• One Green Thing Leads to Another: Sustainability at the Pringle Creek Community, by Jim Fizsimons
• Saving Coral Reefs: Darwin’s Second Obsession Needs to be Our First, by Rick MacPherson
• Building and Dwelling in the Mountains: The Sage Mountain Center Story, by Kathryn Bundy
• Muir Woods National Monument: William Kent’s Progressive Vision, text by Tom Butler, photograpy by Antonio Vizcaino

Photographer Ben Krall in the ARTerrain gallery

Reviews of Nancy A. Nichols’s Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town’s Toxic Legacy, and Lit Windowpane, poems by Suzanne Frischkorn

Check out the new issue now at http://www.terrain.org/.

Previous issues are fully archived at www.terrain.org/archives, and submission guidelines are at www.terrain.org/submit.

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By Simmons Buntin, July 11, 2008 2:13 am

The editors of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments (http://www.terrain.org/) are pleased to announce the launch of Issue No. 22, with the theme of “Understory / Overgrowth.” This issue features:

Columns

• Three Catastrophes, One Sky, guest editorial by Kieran Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity
• Editorials by Simmons B. Buntin, David Rothenberg (with audio), and Deborah Fries

UnSprawl Case Study

• Bradburn Village in Westminster, Colorado

Essays

• Catching Hell: The Joe Holt Integration Story, by Heather Killelea McEntarfer
• The Teeming Abyss: Weaving Through the Pemon Amazon, by Paul Huebener
• Waiting for the Train, by Deirdre Duffy
• Kempsville Summer, 1961, by Richard Goodman
• Sunset Canto, from River of Traps, with Online Slideshow, text by William deBuys, photos by Alex Harris

Articles

• The Future of Environmental Essay: A Discourse with Audio Excerpts, by Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Gessner, David Rothenberg, and Lauret Savoy
• An Undefended Buffet: The Unnecessary Extinction of the Redbay, a Defining Southern Tree, by Susan Cerulean
• Planting Pipelines in National Parks: The West-wide Energy Corridor and the Future of Public Lands in the West, by Erin Podolak
• High Point: A Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing in Seattle, by Walker Wells
• The Currency of Nature, by David Wann

ARTerrain Gallery

• Twelve conceptual nature drawings by Suzanne Stryk

Interview

• Michael J. Vaughn interviews poet laureate Charles Simic

Poetry

• Poetry by Leonore Wilson, Twilight Greenaway, Paul Hostovsky, Elizabeth Simson (with audio), Joanna Gardner, Kathryn Kikrpatrick, Sarah Sarai, Lee Passarella, Nancy Takacs (with audio), Christine Klocek-Lim (with audio), Karla Linn Merrifield, John Estes, and Gretchen Primack

Fiction

• Nova, by Liz Warren-Pederson (with audio)
• Coyote, by Werner A. Low
• Higher Ground, by Darren Akerman
• South of Flag, by Aaron H. Gilbreath
• Devil Takes the Hindmost, by Rosalie Morales Kearns

Reviews

• Stephanie Eve Boone reviews Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach and More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want by Robert Engelman
• Rich Michal reviews Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities by Patrick M. Condon
• Simmons B. Buntin reviews Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound by David Rothenberg

Check out the latest issue now at http://www.terrain.org/.

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By Simmons Buntin, June 11, 2008 6:15 pm

The Terrain.org reading period is now closed, but will open again on August 1 with a new online submission tool.

Look for our next issue, with the theme of “Understory / Overgrowth,” on July 10.

Thank you!

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By Simmons Buntin, January 11, 2008 3:12 am

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

Winter/Spring 2008 Issue Now Online: http://www.terrain.org

Issue No. 21 — Islands & Archipelagos — features a rich mix of contributions:

Columns

- Guest Editorial: “Restoring Abundant Oceans” by Andrew Sharpless, Oceana
- Simmons B. Buntin scribes a portrait of Fernando at Bahía de Loreto
- David Rothenberg plays clarinet to humpback whales off Hawaii
- Deborah Fries recounts the Rutherford Island life of artist Ellen Vincent

Interview

- Terrain.org interviews author David Quammen

Poetry

Poetry by Susan F. Benjamin, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, J.D. Schraffenberger, Margarita Engle, Eric Paul Shaffer, Wendy Burk, Scott T. Starbuck, Paul Fisher, Yvonne Carpenter, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, and Jane Levin

Essays

- “Searching within the Archipelago” by Steve Kahn, with photos by John Hohl
- “St. Francis and the Isle of Foula” by Lynne Shapiro
- “Navajo Women: Doorway Between Traditional and Modern Life” by Betty Reid, with photos by Kenji Kawano
- “Land and Money” by William R. Stimson
- “My Farmhouse in Japan: A Breakfast to Remember” by John Roderick

UnSprawl Case Study

The Villages of Loreto Bay in Baja California Sur —an 8,000-acre new urbanist project that strives to be North America’s largest sustainable resort development; it will include village neighborhoods constructed in nine phases along the Sea of Cortés

Fiction

- “The Third Way” by Tamara Kaye Sellman
- “Pelicans” by Julian Hoffman
- “Her Best Interests” by Janet Yung
- “The Way Things Fall” by Richard Denoncourt

Articles

- “Rice Island: Bali and the Cultivation of Tradition — A Narrative Slideshow” by Colin Donohue
- “Sky Islands of North America: A Globally Unique and Threatened Inland Archipelago” by Matt Skroch
- “No Community is an Island: Tributary and the Young & the Restless” by Rick Mildner and Brian Canin
- “Tourism Takes the Bird: Are Proposed Changes to Four Seasons Development Enough to Protect the Rare Grenada Dove?” by Dr. George Wallace
- “Ocean Acidification: A Greater Threat than Global Warming or Overfishing?” by Dr. William G.C. Burns

ARTerrain Gallery

- Ten natural light photographs from Floridian Joel B. McEachern

Reviews

- Deborah Fries reviews Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007, edited by Jessie Lendennie
- Simmons B. Buntin reviews Phantom Limb: Essays by Theresa Kishkan
- Stephanie Eve Boone reviews Nature Cure: A Story of Depression and Healing by Richard Mabey
- Terrain.org reviews Planet Ocean: Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm, by Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp

View new issue now at http://www.terrain.org

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By Simmons Buntin, September 28, 2007 7:37 pm

Terrain.org’s 21st issue has the theme of “Islands & Archipelagos,” and promises to be an interesting mix of literary and technical contributions, as we hope all issues are.

We are pleased to confirm that this issue’s interview will be with natural history author David Quammen, who most recent book is the biography The Reluctant Mr. Darwin. I (that is, editor Simmons Buntin) has been a fan of Quammen’s often eclectic but also essential writing since the mid-1980s, when Quammen wrote the award-winning “Natural Acts” column for Outside magazine.

The UnSprawl case study will be the new urban village of Loreto Bay in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Loreto Bay is not only unique because of its location on the Sea of Cortez, but because of its measures of sustainability which include water harvesting and desalinization, solar photovoltaic power utilization, and much more.

The ARTerrain gallery will feature the captivating water and island photography of Joel B. McEachern, who has published a brief photo-essay in Terrain.org once before.

We are still accepting submissions in the areas of poetry, essays, fiction, and articles. Submission deadline is December 1 for January 10, 2008, publication. Get more information at www.terrain.org/submit.
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By Simmons Buntin, July 10, 2007 3:23 pm

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is pleased to announce our newest issue:

Issue No. 20 : Community Sustained : www.terrain.org

Columns

• Guest Editorial : “Grassroots Good, Communities of Change” by Erik Hoffner, Orion Grassroots Network
• Simmons B. Buntin’s The Literal Landscape : “A Taco Stand in Every Neighborhood”
• David Rothenberg’s Bull Hill : “Avatud!” with place poems translated
• Catherine Cunningham’s View from the Summit : “Westward Expansion”
• NEW: Deborah Fries’ Plein Air : “Sustainable Magic: Restoring the Allure of Bedford Springs”

Interview

• “Speaking Truth to Power” : Terrain.org interviews ecologist, author, and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber

UnSprawl Case Study

• Southside in Greensboro, North Carolina

Articles

• “Siena and Sustainability: City and Country in Tuscany,” with “Spannocchia: A Tuscan Sustainable Estate” article and extra Siena photos, by Thomas Harvey
• “Community Development in Denver’s Curtis Park: A New Model for Urban Infill,” by Joe Colistra
• “The Arts and Austin’s Second Street District,” by Janet Seibert
• “Aging in Community: How the Coming Baby Boom Generation will Transform Traditional Models of Independent Living,” by Jan Moran and Paul Rollins
• “Kiva: Reducing Poverty and Building Sustainable Communities through Micro-Lending,” by J.D. Stein

Essays

• “Listening without Distraction: Sustainability in Little Tibet,” by Pamela Uschuk, with photos by William Pitt Root
• “Accidental Summer Soundtrack” by Nishta Jaya Mehra
• “Sitting on the Front Porch” by Cynthia Staples
• “A Lake of Pure Sunshine” by Scott Calhoun
• “Bollywood: An Obsession” with narrative slideshow, by Kaizer Rangwala

Poetry

• Lynn Strongin
• Danica Colic
• Matthew Thorburn
• Elizabeth Aamot
• Lyn Lifshin
• Justin Evans
• Tim Bellows
• Anca Vlasopolos
• J.D. Smith
• Eric Magrane, with images

Fiction

• “The Great Citrus War” by Terry Sanville
• “The Split” by Kim Whitehead
• “Renting” by John Michael Cummings
• “Thrashing” by Teague Bohlen

Reviews

• Stephanie Eve Boone reviews Follies of Science: 20th Century Visions of Our Fantastic Future, by Eric Dregni and Jonathan Dregni
• Bonnie Richardson reviews Drosscape: Wasting Urban Land in America, by Alan Berger
• Simmons B. Buntin reviews On the Altar of Greece, poems by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
• Terrain.org reviews Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song, by Les Beletsky

Check out the latest issue now at http://www.terrain.org/.