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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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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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Terrain.org Submission Period Now Open

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By , April 4, 2010 1:28 pm

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is now accepting submissions for the following upcoming issues:

  • No. 26: The Signal in the Noise, publishing mid-September 2010 and including the winners of our inaugural contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
  • No. 27: Entropy, publishing mid-March 2011
  • No. 28: Image, publishing mid-September 2011 and including the winners of our 2nd annual contests

We are seeking submissions of poetry, essays, fiction, articles, and reviews (query first for the latter). We are also seeking the UnSprawl case study (query for that one, too). Our reading period closes on August 1.

Visit www.terrain.org/submit for submission guidelines, and visit http://sub.terrain.org when you’re ready to submit. Information about upcoming themes is available at www.terrain.org/submit/themes.htm.

And don’t forget about our inaugural contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry! They share the same submission deadline (August 1) and theme (The Signal in the Noise). Learn more.

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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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Terrain.org Issue No. 24 Now Live!

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By , 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 24th 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 8th 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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Terrain.org Issue No. 24 Launching Soon!

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By , 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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Terrain.org Issue Launch & Reading : Sept. 24 in Tucson

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By , August 29, 2009 4:20 am

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, a Tucson-based online journal that examines the interface between the built and natural environments, is holding its first-ever issue launch and reading.

This celebration of the “Borders & Bridges” issue (No. 24) features readings by contributors Christopher Cokinos (Hope is the Thing with Feathers and The Fallen Sky), Pamela Uschuk (Crazy Love), Deborah Fries (Various Modes of Departure), and headlining artist David Rothenberg. It will take place on September 24, at 8 p.m., at the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson.

David Rothenberg is a philosopher, musician, and the author of Why Birds Sing, Sudden Music, Blue Cliff Record, Hand’s End, and Always the Mountains. His articles have appeared in Parabola, Orion, The Nation, Wired, Dwell, Kyoto Journal, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and Sierra. Rothenberg is also a composer and jazz clarinetist, and he has seven CDs out under his own name, including On the Cliffs of the Heart, named one of the top ten CDs by Jazziz Magazine in 1995. His latest book is Thousand Mile Song, about making music with whales. Rothenberg is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Agenda

  • Welcome, Issue Overview, Contributor and Editor/Board Callouts (in audience), and First Reader Introductions – Simmons Buntin

  • Pamela Uschuk (poetry) – 8 minutes
  • Christopher Cokinos (nonfiction) – 8 minutes
  • Deborah Fries (poetry) – 8 minutes
  • Introduction of David Rothenberg – Kieran Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity
  • David Rothenberg (music and prose) – 20-25 minutes
  • Refreshments and book signings (UA Bookstore will sell books)

Mark your calendars and please join us for this free and fun event! For more information, view www.terrain.org or contact Terrain.org editor Simmons Buntin at contact1@terrain.org.

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Terrain.org Issue No. 23 : Symbiosis : Now Online

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By , 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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Terrain.org’s Understory / Overgrowth Issue Now Online

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By , 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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Terrain.org Reading Period Closed, Look for New Issue July 10

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By , 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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