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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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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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Issue No. 24 Launch and Reading Redux

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By , October 5, 2009 4:59 am

David RothenbergOn Thursday, September 24th, Terrain.org held its first-ever public issue launch and reading, celebrating Issue No. 24, “Borders and Bridges” with readings by David Rothenberg, Pamela Uschuk, Christopher Cokinos, and Deborah Fries at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

We’ve just added an image gallery and mp3 of the full reading at the new Terrain.org Events section of the website.

We had a great turnout, and thank the Poetry Center and Center for Biological Diversity for sponsoring the event, the readers for such wonderful performances, and the audience. View the image gallery and listen to the full performance now.

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Terrain.org Issue Launch & Reading Tonight!

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By , September 24, 2009 5:02 pm

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 tonight!

8 p.m. : University of Arizona Poetry Center : Tucson

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

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