"We Who Hold Up the World" by Shaunna Oteka McCovey is an excerpt of Campfire Stories: The Redwood Coast - Tales & Travel Companion, edited by Ilyssa Kyu and Dave Kyu. https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/we-who-hold-up-the-world/ #nonfiction #legend #native #story

Tucker Coombe reviews Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World and Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat. https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/slither-stowaway/ #review #books #rats #snakes #history #naturalhistory

Jane Wong's lovely poem "Seaview, WA," with audio, reflects as it recalls, considers as it refuses to conclude along a broken beach in Washington. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jane-wong/ #poetry #poet #poem #washington #beach #recovery

Announcing our 2026 Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net nominations, a rich mix of poetry, fiction, nonfiction & artwork. Please join us in congratulating these contributors! https://www.terrain.org/2025/news/2025-pushcart-best-of-the-net/ #poetry #fiction #nonfiction

Ann Leamon reviews Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street. https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/attached-to-the-living-world/ #review #poetry #ecopoetry #anthology #poems #climate

Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest winners: Hayden Park for Poetry, Kelly R. McGuire for Nonfiction, and Jay McKenzie for Fiction. Congratulations! https://www.terrain.org/2025/news/16th-annual-contest-winners/ #contest #fiction #nonfiction #poetry

Four beautiful poems by Joanna Fuhrman, with audio, from metaphor to imagination, history to indexes of grief. Don't miss these beauties. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/joanna-fuhrman/ #poems #poetry #poet #imagination #history #metaphor

Joanna Kaufman's "The Field" is a lovely flash essay, with audio, on the wild beauty of just letting it grow... https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/the-field/ #essay #nonfiction #flashessay #fields #wildflowers #flowers #field #grass #wild

"What do we tell the water now?" by Lisbeth White is a poetic Letter to America shouted from the shoreline but also from "the horizon of the heart." https://www.terrain.org/2025/currents/letter-to-america-lisbeth-white/ #lettertoamerica #immigration #detention #justice

Thank you all for your generosity in our Terrain.org online auction and fundraiser! Between and donations we raised more than $12,000 to pay contributors. Winners and donors, we will follow up with you this weekend to connect you. Thank you again!

Closing tonight at 10 pm ET: Our online auction & fundraiser. Amazing items & experiences, from a rare Wendell Berry broadside to NM residency to workshops & manuscript reviews to walks, hikes & meals & more. Bid now! app.galabid.com/terrainorg-2...

Agata Antonow's "Three Ways of Mourning" is a searing flash fiction story told from the perspective of a daughter whose father has died. https://www.terrain.org/2025/fiction/three-ways-of-mourning/ #fiction #shortstory #flashfiction #funeral

James David May's lovely eulogy "My Patron Saint of Distance" is in honor of his murdered high school running coach. Read and listen now. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/james-davis-may/ #poetry #poem #poet #running #memory #murder #death

Sandra Meek's epic four-movement poem "Concerto Grosso for Ghost Forests" on the loss of place is the poetic equivalent of a rich orchestral piece. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/sandra-meek-3/ #poem #poetry #poet #music #ghosttrees #ecopoetry

Iris Jamahl Dunkle's "Dark Room: An Inventory" is a beautiful, haunting braided essay on family, memory, illness, abduction, and a fractured childhood. https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/dark-room-an-inventory/ #essay #nonfiction #family

Looking Out from the Inscape of the Self: An interview with poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, by Elizabeth Jacobson. https://www.terrain.org/2025/interviews/inscape-elizabeth-bradfield/ #interview #poetry #ecopoetry #capecod #writing #naturalist #books #poets

Authors Simmons Buntin and Kathryn Wilder talk about how place and the natural world informs their writing and their approach to shaping individual essays into a book-length collection. We chat about craft, cows, cultivating awe in our daily lives . . . and beer. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

"I once taught a girl to paint the ocean with pastels, which is how I learned that even the sea can bleed, an open mouth." This beautiful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social

I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change. Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social! www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

One of the fund-raising auction items for @terrainorg.bsky.social is a fly fishing trip with Joe Wilkins. If only I lived closer to Oregon I'd buy that twice. app.galabid.com/terrainorg-2...

buoyant in a sea that does not know itself, only / that it wants

Queer elder poet Subhaga Crystal Bacon's sobering Letter to America poem is "Anti-Trans Legislation at What Feels Like the End of the World." https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-bacon/ #poem #poet #poetry #trans #exhaustion

New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jared-beloff/ #poem #poetry #poet #water #coast #swimming

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder reviews Martha Park's World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After, a Foreword Reviews Best of 2025 selection. https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/world-without-end/ #review #book #essays #climatecrisis #future

"The Jaguar Craze" is an excerpt of James Campbell's newest fascinating nonfiction book, Heart of the Jaguar. https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/the-jaguar-craze/ #nonfiction #book #excerpt #jaguar #jaguars #conversation #wildlife #predators #hunting

"I Couldn't Name What Can't be Named" is a lovely new poem, with audio, by central Washington's Cynthia Neely. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/cynthia-neely/ #poem #poet #poetry #names #trees #wind #son #children #questions #sky #stars #night

New in @terrainorg.bsky.social, a conversation about western rivers by three writers who know what it's like to raft, explore, study, and love them. @rosemcmackin.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...

“isn’t our silence, too, a kind of shelter?” - Craig Santos Perez

Wow. I loved this. @terrainorg.bsky.social

TOMORROW is the last day to submit your manuscripts! @terrainorg.bsky.social Submit here: terrainorg.submittable.com/submit #sowellemergingwritersprize2026 #sowellcollection #nonfiction #cfm #manuscripts #literature #community #nature #writers #archives

"Ode to the Fish" by Ellen Bass (with audio) is the fourth in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/ellen-bass-3/ #poem #poetry #poet #fish #ode #coastlines #whales #night

"A Sonnet at the Edge of the Reef" by Craig Santos Perez is the third in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/craig-santos-perez-2/ #poem #poetry #poet #sonnet #reef #hawaii #coral #shelter

"Tecolote" by Jose Hernandez Diaz is the first in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jose-hernandez-diaz/ #poet #poem #poetry #animals #owls #heritage #mexico #myth #memory

Zac Podmore, Rose McMackin, and Becca Lawton, who carry Western rivers in their blood, talk about their boating lives, creative bents, and views of moving water. https://www.terrain.org/2025/interviews/western-rivers/ #interview #water #west #writing #rivers

Eiren Caffall's stunning excerpt of her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, published by Row House Publishing, braids motherhood, chronic illness, and place. https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/longfin-inshore-squid/ #nonfiction #illness #motherhood #danger #disease

Two poems, with audio, from Nathaniel Perry's new song series: "2 (Song, with Heathen)" and "3 (Song, with Mountain)." https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/nathaniel-perry-3/ #poem #poet #poems #poetry #song #heathen #mountain

British author Fiona M. Jones's delightful flash story "Restoration" takes a unique view of the restoration of a cottage in the woods, and what's next. https://www.terrain.org/2025/fiction/restoration/ #fiction #story #flashfiction #forest #abandoned

Sunni Brown Wilkinson reviews Laura Stott's The Bear's Mouth: Poems, finding it "grapples with grief and beauty in such a startlingly fresh way." https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/the-bears-mouth/ #review #book #poetry #poems #bears #loss

Delighted to see the NYT picking up on the incredible 'Threshold 32°F' project that we featured in ARTerrain a few months ago. Congratulations to Debbie Clarke Moderow, Klara Maisch, and Rebecca Hewitt! Link to the full feature in the following post. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/a...

Check out graduate student @sarahbsouthern.bsky.social's review of Christina Rivera's 2025 book 'My Oceans' for @terrainorg.bsky.social! www.terrain.org/2025/reviews...

@terrainorg.bsky.social - I am way proud to be in Terrain.org today, in my story about a woman whose muse is the Everglades, a world I have loved over the years. www.terrain.org/2025/fiction...

I interviewed Elspeth Hay for @terrainorg.bsky.social. We talk about nut trees as a keystone species, the non-existent dividing line between humans and nature, prescribed burns, and how the land needs us as much as we need it (her/ them). Photo courtesy of Elspeth Hay. Link in next comment.

Check out this beautiful interview in @terrainorg.bsky.social with #author Elspeth Hay about #farming, #food, and the future: "we need a new economic system to regenerate life instead of gambling with it." www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...

"[B.J. Hollars has] penned an enduring love letter that resonates through the mysteries of deep time and a world just as mysterious, beautiful, and challenged today," writes Simmons Buntin for @terrainorg.bsky.social. shorturl.at/yq8Lk

Submissions are still open for the Sowell Emerging Writers Prize. If you have a nonfiction manuscript, send it in! @terrainorg.bsky.social terrainorg.submittable.com/submit #sowellemergingwritersprize2026 #sowellcollection #nonfiction #manuscripts #literature #community #nature #writers #archives

"Once, My Father Showed Me an Arrowhead" is a hauntingly beautiful essay by Sara L. Spurgeon about the death of her father, and so much more, when she was young. https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/father-showed-me-an-arrowhead/ #essay #father

In her Letter to America poem "Praise song" (with audio), Claire Hermann sings alleluia to the events of the day, finding (or rather, making) rare joy. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-hermann/ #poem #poet #lettertoamerica #praise #song #joy

"Their orders were gruff and strong and enforceable: Go, they said. Now, they said." And so they did, in Holli Cederholm's delightful short short story. https://www.terrain.org/2025/fiction/go-they-said/ #story #fiction #shortstory #girls #mud #play

Step away from the chaos of the day with Philip Terman's lovely poem (with audio), "A Poetry as Perfect as a June Evening." https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/philip-terman-2/ #poem #poet #poetry #evening #field #lovely #peace #peaceful

Charles H. Lynch's "RICE   COTTON   TOBACCO   CANE" is a powerful, and powerfully hypnotic, political poem, with audio. Don't miss this one. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/charles-h-lynch/ #poem #poetry #poet #rice #cotton #tobacco #cane