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An interesting thing about your book is how you blend your role as a scientist with your role as a policymaker. You write about it not in a dry, college textbook-y way, but as a person, and as a ...
If you’re interested in suggesting a feature (or Lay of the Land piece), from August 1- 15 we will be accepting nonfiction ...
DO YOU REMEMBER that song about the farmer in the dell? In my childhood version, which is probably different from yours (maybe because my mother changed it to spare my tender feelings), it starts with ...
IT IS THE LATE 1950S, and a boy, twelve years old, runs away from home. He makes his way from New York City to the Catskills, where he carves a home from a hollowed-out hemlock on his grandfather’s ...
The Course: Following and Falling Past the Line In the preface to The Art of the Poetic Line, James Longenbach writes, “line has no identity except in relation to other elements in the poem… it is not ...
Birds began populating my own dreams. A great blue heron glided across the sky of my mind, slow and prehistoric, carrying the world on her back. A million sandhill cranes unspooled from the horizon, ...
I never saw him wrap a sapling’s trunk with chicken wire, or moat a firepit in feldspar-dusted quartz, or free our poplar’s canopy from a cow-size clump of mistletoe (a parasite, I know this now) that ...
Recently diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, a woman processes life and death through space and sea ...
Poets Lauren Camp and Todd Davis exchange letters in which they discuss devotion to details, belonging to place, and saying yes to love. Dear Todd, I feel like we waited so long for summer, and now it ...
Most days I breezed past this bowl of fruit, paying it little attention. But that morning I studied it. I picked up one of the oranges and set it in the palm of my hand. A white sticker declared its ...
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