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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, December 2, 2007 5:35 am

The reading period for Terrain.org is currently closed, though we will continue to accept submissions and begin reading them again in February 2008.

Look for our 21st issue, “Islands & Archipelagos,” at http://www.terrain.org/ on January 10, 2008.

All submissions received prior to December 1 will receive responses by mid-December. If you don’t, please contact us.

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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/.