"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

Our newest Letter to America is Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation member Deborah A. Miranda's "Cento for an American Monarchy" https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-miranda/ #poetry #poet #lettertoamerica #politicalpoetry #cento

Jeremy Graves reviews John Shoptaw's Near-Earth Object, which "should be read by everyone who loves poetry and the earth it speaks for." https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/near-earth-object/ #review #poetry #ecopoetry #reviews #hope #language #despair

Two stunning poems, with audio, by United Kingdom poet Naomi Madlock: "Goblin Combe" and "Top Secret". Don't miss these beauties. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/naomi-madlock/ #deer #pain #panic #injury #butterflies #seasons #poet #poetry #poems

"In the Circle of Time," a guest editorial by Cameron Walker, she explores transformation in art, landscape and her new short story collection, How to Capture Carbon. https://www.terrain.org/2025/currents/the-circle-of-time/ #editorial #change

Don't miss this beautiful poem, with audio, by Michelle Bitting: "The Grain of Gold Waving in the Sun." https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/michelle-bitting/ #poem #poetry #poet #gardening #gardener #light #sunlight #sun #beauty #body

Our newest Letter to America is Jill McCabe Johnson's "Scientists Confirm Hope Takes Practice," a cento comprised of titles. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-jm-johnson/ #poem #poet #poetry #cento #lettertoamerica #coast #sky #hope #scientists

Rob Carney's latest in the "Old Roads, New Stories" begins with five questions but reaches back to his childhood, to Brian Doyle, and more. Another beauty here. https://www.terrain.org/2025/currents/coastline-or-river-why/ #questions #teaching #autumn #football

Nine brief, insightful, and delightful new poems by acclaimed poet Andrea Cohen, with audio. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/andrea-cohen-5/ #poet #poetry #poems

What if you don't choose to be a muse? What if the thing you're a muse for disturbs you? Jennifer Bannan's story "Muse" asks these questions and more. https://www.terrain.org/2025/fiction/muse/ #story #shortstory #everglades #muse #whatif

Three stellar, innovative poems by Grace Matthews: "Boundary St.," "Misalignment," and "Portrait of a Woman by Google." https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/grace-mathews/ #poems #poet #poetry #city #losangeles #traffic #women #marketing #google

Sholeh Wolpé, whose translation of Attar's The Invisible Sun is now available, on why the 12th-century Iranian Sufi mystic poet's wisdom is so necessary today. https://www.terrain.org/2025/currents/the-invisible-sun/ #attar #editorial #newbook

Letter to America: Author and Floridian Andrew Furman on what Henry David Thoreau would do in light of "Alligator Alcatraz". https://www.terrain.org/2025/currents/letter-to-america-furman/ #lettertoamerica #everglades #thoreau #immigration #prison

B.J. Hollars reviews Simmons Buntin's Satellite: Essays of Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far, finding that the "essays contain big ideas in small packages." https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/satellite/ #review #essays #fatherhood #place #community

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) returns with a new Letter to America: "watching a production of The Tempest after a colleague asked about my relationship with white women". https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-henry-2/ #poetry #poem #politicalpoetry #race

It's the start of the Fall Semester and our Fall 2025 Virtual Reading Series!! First up is Simmons Buntin from @terrainorg.bsky.social, reading on Sept 18 @ 6pm CT. Register here: texastech.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #sowellcollection #Fall2025VirtualReadingSeries #virtualreading #writers #archives

Michael Harper's "The Night Amos Went to Jail" mixes urban youth with rural hertitage in a fast-paced short story not to be missed. https://www.terrain.org/2025/fiction/the-night-amos-went-to-jail/ #youth #urban #amish #drugs #chaos #party #destruction #alcohol #horse

Bethany Schultz Hurst's second Letter to America poem reflects on the recent loss of the Grand Canyon Lodge to wildfire. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-hurst/ #grandcanyon #grandcanyonlodge #fire #wildfire #memory #mother

Rob Carney's latest in the "Old Roads, New Stories" series may well be his shortest--but what a moment with that hummingbird! https://www.terrain.org/2025/old-roads-new-stories/during-hummingbird-season/ #birds #hummingbird #hummingbirds #watering #lawn #rain #moment #connection

So excited to publish this with @terrainorg.bsky.social. I wrote the first draft about six years and two administrations ago but glacial melt and misunderstood antifa seem to still be timely.

For your weekend reading, this beautiful interview with artist and chef Anne Flash about the shift in her work from pastoral beachscapes into what she calls "full tilt into the storm and imbalance." 🌎 #art #climatechange @terrainorg.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...

I hope you enjoy my new poem featured in @terrainorg.bsky.social. It's loaded with mushrooms, slugs, butterflies, and orcas. www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

Gorgeous and perfect in this moment.

If the question is about distance, the answer / is receding forests. If the question’s about time, / we are falling and risk having

Four poems from the award-winning book Once When Green, by Mark Irwin: "Holiday Inn", "What if?", "Less Vast Pastoral" and "Et in Arcadia Ego". https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/mark-irwin-2/ #poems #poetry #poet #nature #memory #bison #love

Simmons Buntin reviews B.J. Hollars's forthcoming Dinosaur Dreams and Andrew Furman's recent Of Slash Pines and Manatees, finding them both to be remarkable, lovely books. https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/dinosaur-dreams-of-slash-pines-and-manatees/ #books #review #nonfiction

A Life of Science: East Asian Studies Ph.D. candidate Huiqi Zhang on the politics of disposal and recycling in China & beyond. https://www.terrain.org/2025/a-life-of-science/waste-in-motion/ #essay #science #research #waste #garbage #energy #incineration

"#BreadAndCircuses," a digital media Letter to America poem for our time by Matthew Moniz, with audio. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-moniz/ #lettertoamerica #poem #poetry #poet #socialmedia #digitalmedia #politicalpoetry

Terry Lawhead reviews A Watershed Runs Through You: Essays, Talks, and Reflections on Salmon, Restoration, and Community by Freeman House. https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/a-watershed-runs-through-you/ #review #book #essays #watersheds

"Tankas for Our First Fall in Mississippi," five lovely tankas by Winshen Liu, with audio. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/winshen-liu/ #poetry #poet #poems #tanka #tankas #seasons #mississippi

In Carrie Green's new Letter to America poem, each line opens with a word listed in the New York Times article, “These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration." https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-green-2/ #poetry