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A literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute blackearthinst.bsky.social | Dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society. Black Earth, Wisconsin | aboutplacejournal.org

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did I think the ocean was unchanged? Only on the surface. Down below, it’s warming. The ocean will take it and take it and take it until the ocean can’t take it anymore, and then, the ocean will rise. From 'Landslide' by science writer & poet Melissa L. Sevigny aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In Elizabeth Cranford Garcia's 'American Spring, v.1', the author asks "is there anything, America, that can stretch you beyond your elastic tolerance?" Read the full text in the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social #Poetry #LitMag

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

2 to issue forth suddenly as water, or as Executive Orders renaming bodies of water America. As pink blossoms from the redbuds, flaunting their promises, their promiscuity. Also, as uterine blood from a woman sent home from the ER... From American Spring, v.1 aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

...this child ran into the field and turned to look back at the house he scissored over the meadow arriving at the same place in the southeast corner near the trees there is a creek that runs at the base of the little bluff at the edge of the field... aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Every pastoral, including this one, risks sweeping clean history’s conscience. In the American vein, thick veil over the stygian face of forgetting every removal: people, animals, plants, water. From 'In Which She Considers the Midwestern “Landscape” S. Scarry aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Call for Submissions: This issue of About Place Journal—The Power of Art in a Changing World—seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The market rumbles with the murmur of lean crops. All is still progress since the farmers still harvest smoke as protein to make their families & nation happy, to watch progress drip from the mouths of pipelines. From 'Progress in Delta' by Clement Abayomi aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Farewell, farewell—again, farewell—to the once clean home, to the odán trees now weeping on lonely nights as bats no longer keep them company. They, too, are witnessing how a place begins to fade before it crumbles. -Aiyétéjú, by Nigerian poet Clement Abayomi aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This issue of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. Work must be submitted via Submittable by October 1, 2026.

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Call for Submissions: This issue of About Place Journal—The Power of Art in a Changing World—seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Grounded on a sandbar, eight not-quite- icebergs slump and rot to mud- and soot- smeared hills of gritty worn-out snow. Stranded, tame, their keels and peaks thawed off, they reminded us of the mounds snowplows leave in strip-mall parking lots. - J. Atkinson aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Packs the wound, fills the space with mountains that rejected you to begin with. In a broken whisper you catch their attention ask them when the mountains abandoned you, how did you feel? From 'Appalachian Dystopia' by Anna Bohn aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Alone here, I am charged to the eyelids. Time comes and goes in waves and pleats, like the water I stand in. Time is moving through me, not me through time. From 'The Sea Remembers My Scars' by Adelina Basile aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Winter as it used to be purpled, blurred by cold I miss that, now How, the far hills become lavender in the sky of palest rose Snows, everywhere snows From 'Winter Solastalgia' by Catherine Young aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

tell me what you remember, past fault lines of some saving grace, the sea a risen god or was it that the land itself just sank a bathtub drunk, a quiet breath then gone From 'A Quiet Breath' by Estill Pollock #Poetry #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

An absence / filled the space where I was / born

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I miss when cypress thrived, the memory of moss hanging like a net of light. Back then, swans were swans, necks arched in song and everywhere we looked, otters. _____ From 'Ghost Forest' Swans Reflecting Elephants by Salvador Dali, 1937 by Stacey Balkun aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I've become a person who doesn’t want to write poems that sit like a well-formed vase on a steady table. I’ve become a person who is more interested in poetry that seems like maybe a spell? Maybe a teacup of rainwater? Maybe a glass upturned over a hole under which a wasp nest might reside?

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I was born on the edge of death, a ghost forest lit from the bayou below I was born over-exposed underground, in the roots of a dying cypress tree From 'Oree' by Stacey Balkun Read the full poem in the lastest edition of About Place Journal. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Oklahoma is a land for the dead; Oral Roberts still has his hand in the till; crosses gleam, a football field apart, on every highway. ____ From 'It is There as if it were Nothing' by Caleb Jordan aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Edwina’s mother didn’t hand her a business plan. She handed her a way of being in relation to a piece of land – attentive, patient, proud. __ From 'Lakadong Turmeric and the Mothers Who Keep It' by Jonali Patgiri, a writer from Shillong, Meghalaya, in India. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Read Laura Donnelly's full poem 'Conserving the Sequoia,' published in the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social Donnelly lives in Upstate New York and teaches at SUNY Oswego. @sunyofficial.bsky.social Learn more about her work at 🔗 laurakdonnelly.com

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Split in radials for shipping a century ago, you look like an eleven-hour clock but vast and quieter than time. You require a scaffold and team of small brushes, grand in your deterioration as the finest Renaissance fresco... - Laura Donnelly ✍️📃⬇️ aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It is not the sand I seek it is the turbulence of my agglutinative tongue digging in defiance of viced currents that pull me further than I have gone further than the country that slips and slips through my finger From 'At Sea' by Ru Freeman 🔗 rufreeman.com aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

From the Preface to our latest edition: The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance “We stand on ancestral land. We walk through stolen cities. We return to sacred places. We resist with our bodies, with our breath, with our stories.” #LitMag #Poetry aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"Buffalo Autumn' by Santa Fe #Artist Kathleen Frank. 🎨 Frank travels throughout the American West, seeking inspiration for her landscape paintings. Using vibrant hues, she captures light and pattern in her search for logic within complex terrains. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

"Buffalo Autumn' painting by Kathleen Frank,depicts buffalo grazing in multicolored valley.

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NewPages @newpages.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

About Place Journal May 2026 is a "bold and unflinching issue" bringing together poetry, essays, fiction, hybrid work, and visual art on the theme "The Ground Beneath Us: Place Power, and Resistance." #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"This issue of About Place Journal emerges from a shared recognition: place is never just geography. It is a relationship between people, land, memory, and power." Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Seth Copeland, Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak, Editorial team for The Ground Beneath Us

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Poetry friends, please suggest collections that explore ritual (you get to define that word). I already have Poetry as Spellcasting, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, and all of CA Conrad's, Danielle Vogel's, and Annie Finch's work. #Poetry

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The shattering new issue of #aboutplacejournal from @blackearthinst.bsky.social is live. I've got one in here, in humbling company, thanks to Issue editors: Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Was such a great pleasure to edit this edition, which is full of incredible snd necessary work

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Discover the latest edition of About Place Journal ➡️ The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance Congratulations to Issue editors Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland, Assistant editors Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak for this outstanding issue. #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.

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Renee Kalagayan @rkalagayanpoet.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

TWO ✌🏽 poems out today in @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social in its incredibly pertinent issue “The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power & Resistance”: aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Melissa Sevigny @melissasevigny.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The new issue of About Place includes my brief essay "Landslide." It's about loss, interconnected ecological and human health, and the ocean. Give it a read. #writing #climatechange #ecology aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Nature writing about the land is so important as the modern world works to sever and numb these relationships @melissasevigny.bsky.social brings her unique voice to this essay connecting love, loss, memory, health and the sea. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g... @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

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The Ground Beneath Us – About Place Journal

The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

At best, we are what happens when everyone comes together, no one shunned, all free to rove on a Mother Earth without boundaries or land hogged by the mocking rich. __________ From 'Part Irish, In My Family We Are Stained Glass Windows' by Susan Deer Cloud aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Janet Ryan has spent the past fifteen years reading, writing, observing the antics of the birds and animals that visit her front yard, and discovering the stories behind the postage stamps she collects. Read her piece "The More Things Change…"in the latest edition of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In my eighty years I have seen many threats to our freedoms, from foreign tyrants to governmental witch hunters, from nuclear tragedy to environmental disaster, from unchecked power to unbridled greed. Today, I fear I see them all gathered before me. Janet Ryan aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Special Tercentenary postage stamp. Tree Image on stamp based on Charter Oak, painted by Charles De Wolf Brownell in 1857.

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

bone & blood thru sod & riverbed to loam restored each particle that passes through our aristotle intestines turning turf first from ballast water & root ball our origins emptied from ship to pack more tobacco From 'worm requiem' by Laura-Gray Street aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

When she posts photos from DC protests, I’m an ocean of mothers. The sky burns with pride and stings of menace. There’s more risk in ordinary language than a Cold War of kinetic bombardment could avert. From 'Canticle for Sydna' by Laura-Gray Street aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

What does freedom mean if you were never ruled? What if in your generational history, people thrived, lived communally, shared resource, honored agreements that meant there were no jails, no police forces, no orphanages... From 'Decolonized Freedom of Mind' aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The vicuñas prancing the narrow ramp in hoofed obedience—gangplank to heaven, gangplank to cage—the lions with their ruffled, comic faces From 'While the U.S. President Throws A Military Parade, I Stand in Front of El embarque en el arca de Noé' by A. Teague aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This country couldn’t, really couldn’t, spell freedom with a q, yet here we go again. Quietly quaking. Killing loudly. Spelling birthright like never here. ___ From 'On Inauguration Day, which is also MLK Day, I Consider America as a “Mouse Pie”' by A.Teague aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Deep freedom is the freedom to transform the state of one’s soul, self and society. Transformation is the organized emergence of a fundamentally distinct reality from that which presently reigns. From 'Nourishing Deep Freedom' by Aaron Jamal #LitMag #Freedom aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

'Giving Comfort' by Sherry Shahan Shahan has spent decades wandering the globe as a travel journalist, quietly watching the world and its people from behind. Her collages have appeared in Rattle, Josephine Quarterly, Orion’s Belt & elsewhere. #Photography aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

This photograph of broken cement and an art installation was taken in a city park in Buenos Aires.

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Litany for Change Change the wars in the middle east wiping out the children in the streets dressed in grey rags playing with dirt and sticks and with pebbles Change the insatiable hunger of the rich for diamonds and dollar bills and oil to eat and to drink aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"The Non-Breeding Option being exercised more and more pervasively of late demonstrates that Mother Nature can be kind. This contemporary system of Hers embraces traditions like: contraception, sterilization; same-sex marriage; abstinence, celibacy..." aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"I wanted to know whether immigrants and refugees—especially those who might look, believe, think, or speak differently—still fit in the United States of today, our so-called 'nation of immigrants'...” From 'Why Are They Here?' by Peter Chilson aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My mother told me anytime I see a mariposa monarca it is one of our ancestors, drifting with the breeze without restrictions. And still, I question why we have to wait until death to be free. From 'Untitled (Trabajadores)' by Daniel Gonzalez #Poetry #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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