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Terrain.org is the world's first online literary journal of place. An award-winning environmental magazine, we publish poetry, nonfiction, fiction, artwork, editorials, interviews, reviews, community case studies, and more, all free to access + ad-free.

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Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two lovely sonnets by Robert Marteau written in 1990, translated from the French by Malcolm Greenlee Farley, with audio. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/robert-… #poems #poet #poetry #translation #french #france #abbey #angels #sunlight #joy #history #religion

Two Poems by Robert Marteau - Terrain.org

Two lovely sonnets by Robert Marteau written in 1990, translated from the French by Malcolm Greenlee Farley.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Passage" is an excerpt from Lydia Paar's stunning book The Exit is the Entrance: Essays on Escape. www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/pas… #excerpt #nonfiction #essay #essays #creativenonfiction #newbook #oregon #coast #fear #love #mother #relationships #jobs #work #labor

Passage - Terrain.org

"Passage" is an excerpt from Lydia Paar's stunning book The Exit is the Entrance: Essays on Escape.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Aneesh Agarwal's poem "banana slug, after rain" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/aneesh-… #poetry #poet #poem #washington #youth #slug #bananaslug #bananaslugs #aftertherain

One Poem by Aneesh Agarwal - Terrain.org

Aneesh Agarwal's poem "banana slug, after rain" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Renata Golden, "a grateful reader," reviews Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River, by Lisa G. Dill. www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/… #review #reviews #nonfiction #memoir #rivers #missouririver #newbook #book

Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River - Terrain.org

Renata Golden, "a grateful reader," reviews Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River by Lisa G. Dill.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Four gorgeous poems on the life and love of hunting and fishing by Adam Moore, with audio. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/adam-mo… #poem #poems #poetry #poet #hunting #hunt #fishing #grandfather #love #place

Four Poems by Adam Moore - Terrain.org

Four gorgeous poems on the life and love of hunting and fishing by Adam Moore, with audio.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Notes on a School Shooting" by Cailín Frankland is Terrain.org's newest Letter to America poem (with audio), and sadly one far too relevant these days. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-… #poetry #poem #poet #lettertoamerica #schoolshootings #schools

Letter to America by Cailín Frankland - Terrain.org

"Notes on a School Shooting" by Cailín Frankland is Terrain.org's newest Letter to America poem, and sadly one far too relevant these days.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Three strange and beautiful poems by Liam Strong: "black bear sighting", "don't speak the lord's name in vain where the fungi can hear us", and "faith in five different spellings". www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/liam-st… #poems #poetry #poet #animals

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In his long-running Old Roads, New Stories series, Rob Carney gifts us a new poem in his new psalm series: "Economy Psalm." www.terrain.org/2026/currents/econo… #poem #poetry #poet #psalms #economy #attic #attics #metaphor #home #homes

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"How to Skin a Gazelle" is a lovely if not searing Letter to America poem on war and more, by Yeh Wenqi, a second-generation Taiwanese immigrant. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-… #poem #poet #poetry #lettertoamerica #politicalpoetry #shame #war #cliff

Letter to America by Yeh Wenqi - Terrain.org

"How to Skin a Gazelle" is a lovely if not searing Letter to America poem on war and more, by Yeh Wenqi, a second-generation Taiwanese immigrant.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"A Lit Window Is Someone Awake" is a beautiful story from Sharon Wahl's award-winning book Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances. www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/a-lit-… #fiction #story #shortstory #excerpt #scientists #sisters #death #student #teacher #fate

A Lit Window Is Someone Awake - Terrain.org

"A Lit Window Is Someone Awake" is a beautiful story from Sharon Wahl's award-winning book Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fardokht Gorouhi's gorgeous poem "Elegy for a Cutbank on the Hoh" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series. #poem #poetry #poet #washington #olympicnationalpark #hohriver #fish #herons #rivers #loss #beauty

One Poem by Fardokht Gorouhi - Terrain.org

Fardokht Gorouhi's poem "Elegy for a Cutbank on the Hoh" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Into the Mountains" is the prologue to the terrific new book by Joe Wilkins, Every Sky at Home: Essays on Landscape and Family. www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/int… #essay #nonfiction #excerpt #mountains #family #childhood #montana #oregon #iowa #camping #cabin #wilderness

Into the Mountains - Terrain.org

"Into the Mountains" is the prologue to the terrific new book by Joe Wilkins, Every Sky at Home: Essays on Landscape and Family.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Julie L. Moore's powerful Letter to America found poem "The Only Ones Left" recalls the May 31-June 1, 1921 Tulsa Massacre from the testimonies of last three survivors in court, 2021. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-… #poetry #poem #lettertoamerica #tulsamassacre

Letter to America by Julie L. Moore - Terrain.org

Katherine Shehadeh's powerful Letter to America poem, with audio, is "Lessons from Holocausts (after the Florida Attorney General Tried to Cancel Our Conference)."

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Dolapo Demuren's "American Dream Sonnet Where Children Learn to Read" is a sonnet unlike any you've read before, with audio. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/dolapo-… #poem #poet #poetry #books #children #trees #pines #forest #reading

One Poem by Dolapo Demuren - Terrain.org

Dolapo Demuren's "American Dream Sonnet Where Children Learn to Read" is a sonnet unlike any you've read before, with audio.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Check out the latest in Terrain.org in our Terrain.org This Week update on Substack: terrainorg.substack.com/p/carework-a...

Terrain.org - Online Environmental Magazine of Literature and Place

Terrain.org is an online environmental magazine of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, editorials, interviews, reviews, Unsprawl case studies, and art since 1998.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Turning Toward the Heartbreak: Katlin Curtice interviews Indigenous story-driven strategist and doula Madison Murphy Barney. #interview #doula #story #ancestry #decomposition #growth #regrowth #kinship #connection #disconnection #community #care

Turning Toward the Heartbreak: An Interview with Madison Murphy Barney - Terrain.org

Turning Toward the Heartbreak: Katlin Curtice interviews Indigenous story-driven strategist and doula Madison Murphy Barney.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today (August 26) is the last day to submit to Poetry & Polar Science! Review the guidelines and scientific papers and submit here: springcreekproject.submittable.com/submit/35951...

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PRAx - Poetry & Polar Science

Poetry & Polar Science “Observation and imagination, the microscope and the metaphor, the sense of amazement—you need all of them to take the measure of a moment, of a life.” — Jane Hirshfiel...

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dennis Vannatta's "Farm Life" is a delightful story about a cow stuck in a pond and a farmer's hope to save her. www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/farm-l… #fiction #story #shorstory #farm #farming #cow #cows #rural #mishap #danger #pond #cattle #dimentia #marriage

Farm Life - Terrain.org

Dennis Vannatta's "Farm Life" is a delightful story about a cow stuck in a pond and a farmer's hope to save her.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Carework as Climate Work" is an excerpt of the important new book by Jennifer Case, The Carework Project: Reckoning with Love, Labor, and the Living World. #care #carework #family #climate #climatechange #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #newbook

Carework as Climate Work - Terrain.org

"Carework as Climate Work" is an excerpt of the new book by Jennifer Case, The Carework Project: Reckoning with Love, Labor, and the Living World.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Two beautiful, powerful poems (with audio) by ethan s. evans: "fentanyl" and "adam". www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/ethan-s… #poetry #poems #poet #body #relationships #flowers #wasps #fentanyl #drugs #ozonelayer

Two Poems by ethan s. evans - Terrain.org

Two beautiful, powerful poems (with audio) by ethan s. evans: "fentanyl" and "adam".

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

BK Loren reviews Julian Hoffman’s Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece, finding it "a compendium of hope that reaffirms the inter-connectedness of life that eventually brings us whole and brings us home." #review #book #newbook

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Shashanna @shashanna.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Lovely read this morning. I have a special affinity for butterfly poems.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Halen J.D. Price's "Metamorphosis" kicks off the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/halen-j… #poem #poetry #poet #youth #washington #butterfly #butterflies #ecopoetry

One Poem by Halen J.D. Price - Terrain.org

Halen J.D. Price's "Metamorphosis" kicks off the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series.

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 14/08/2026

New publisher listing for: Poetry & Polar Science @terrainorg.bsky.social (Poetry; pays). #WritingCommunity

New Publisher Listing: Poetry & Polar Science

New publisher listing for: Poetry & Polar Science @terrainorg.bsky.social (Poetry; pays). #WritingCommunity

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In a town about to explode with political unrest and wildfire, 15-year-old Isabel got yet another pimple... it's all in Christopher Labaza's delightful story, "Heat Treatment." www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/heat-t… #youth #wildfire #town #danger #risk #family #fiction #shortstory

Heat Treatment - Terrain.org

In a town about to explode with political unrest and wildfire, 15-year-old Isabel got yet another pimple... it's all in Christopher Labaza's delightful story, "Heat Treatment."

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Washington State Poet Laureate Derek Sheffield introduces the new Words, Woods, and Wellness: Poetry by Washington Youth series. #guesteditorial #poetry #washington #words #woods #wellness #youth #series #newseries #writing #children #nature #ecopoetry

Words, Woods, and Wellness: A World Beyond Screens - Terrain.org

Washington State Poet Laureate Derek Sheffield introduces the new Words, Woods, and Wellness: Poetry by Washington Youth series.

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

These beautiful creatures and such exceptional, poignant work. Extinction is forever.

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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Amazing opportunity for the cross-pollination of science and poetry…

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Lori Goshert @lzgoshert.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My essay "Swan Song" is live at Terrain.org!

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Three lovely new poems of season and place by Cathryn Essinger, with audio: "The Bradford Pear," "Ceremonies," and "I didn't understand the word diaphanous." #poetry #poems #poet #trees #animals #birds #hawks #foxes #landscape #winter #spring #seasons

Three Poems by Cathryn Essinger - Terrain.org

Three lovely new poems of season and place by Cathryn Essinger, with audio: "The Bradford Pear," "Ceremonies," and "I didn't understand the word diaphanous."

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Brian Rose's "Murder on Second Street" is a photo essay based on a 1980 collaboration with fellow photographer Edward Fausty to document New York City's Lower East Side from a shared a 4x5 view camera. #photoessay #newyorkcity #photos

Murder on Second Avenue - Terrain.org

Brian Rose's "Murder on Second Street" is a photo essay based on a 1980 collaboration with Edward Fausty to document New York City's Lower East Side.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In his long-running Old Roads, New Stories series, Rob Carney gifts us a new poem: "Weather Psalm." www.terrain.org/2026/currents/weath… #poetry #poem #poet #weather #psalm #sky #clouds #future

Weather Psalm - Terrain.org

In his long-running Old Roads, New Stories series, Rob Carney gifts us a new poem: "Weather Psalm."

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Leath Tonino's "Castaway" is a powerful Letter to America, a tragic fable really, that speaks to our exploring, conquering history. www.terrain.org/2026/currents/casta… #lettertoamerica #america #history #explorers #conquerers #legacy #poison #fable

Castaway - Terrain.org

Leath Tonino's "Castaway" is a powerful Letter to America, a tragic fable really, that speaks to our exploring, conquering history.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Diana Halfpenny translates and excerpt from French Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba's Encabanée (or, Sanctuary), a delightful if not dangerous scene in Far North Canada. #isolation #winter #north #canada #farnorth #danger #fiction #story #excerpt #shortstory

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In this episode of the Terrain.org podcast, Tamara Dean speaks with our nonfiction editors: Elizabeth Dodd, Achilles Seastrom, Jennifer Case, and Eric Aldrich. www.terrain.org/2026/currents/nonfi… #editing #publishing #writing #editors #nonfiction #bees

Nonfiction Editors' Roundtable - Terrain.org

In this episode of the Terrain.org podcast, Tamara Dean speaks with our nonfiction editors: Elizabeth Dodd, Achilles Seastrom, Jennifer Case, and Eric Aldrich.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Jesse Breite wrote "Sweetgum Silhouettes" and Logan Blanco painted "Sweetgum Song" in response. Then Blanco painted "Gee's Bouquet" and Breite wrote "Gee's Pantoum #2" in response. View, read, and listen now. #poetry #poems #poet #painting #paintings

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In "The Cradle of the Housatonic River," a poem written and read by Matthew Johnson, the poet asks if the river knows how much it has changed. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/matthew… #poem #poetry #poet #river #housatonicriver #massachusetts #connecticut #rivers #change #names

One Poem by Matthew Johnson - Terrain.org

In "The Cradle of the Housatonic River," a poem written and read by Matthew Johnson, the poet asks if the river knows how much it has changed.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Lori Laleh Goshert's "Swan Song" is a poignant and pointed essay on swans, classical music, film, history, dictators, ICE, climate, and more. #essay #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #swan #swans #wildlife #invasivespecies #film #history #classicalmusic

Swan Song - Terrain.org

Lori Laleh Goshert's "Swan Song" is a poignant and pointed essay on swans, classical music, film, history, dictators, ICE, climate, and more.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Beatrice Szymkowiak's powerfully quiet Letter to America poem is "American Dream," and beings "the bullet hits doesn’t / shatter the windshield..." www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-… #poem #poet #poetry #lettertoamerica #bullets #cars #poets #sea

Letter to America by Beatrice Szymkowiak - Terrain.org

Beatrice Szymkowiak's powerfully quiet Letter to America poem is "American Dream," and beings "the bullet hits doesn’t / shatter the windshield..."

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Suzanne Roberts reviews America, A Love Story, Camille T. Dungy’s new book of poems. www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/… #review #book #poetry #poems #america #blackamerica #love #history

A Book for Troubling Times: Camille Dungy’s America, A Love Story - Terrain.org

Suzanne Roberts reviews America, A Love Story, Camille T. Dungy’s new book of poems.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Ode to Cicadas," by Sharon Dolin, is a delightful poem written and read that brings song to cicada and cicada to spirit. Don't miss this one. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/sharon-… #poem #poet #poetry #song #cicada #cicadas #spirit #singing #delight #joy #sound

One Poem by Sharon Dolin - Terrain.org

"Ode to Cicadas," by Sharon Dolin, is a delightful poem written and read that brings song to cicada and cicada to spirit.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Poet Noah Davis interviews Austin Araujo, author of At the Park on the Edge of the Country: Poems. www.terrain.org/2026/interviews/aus… #interview #conversation #poets #poetry #place #arkansas #ozarks #rivers #borders #mexico #stories

Including Impossibilities: A Conversation with Austin Araujo - Terrain.org

Poet Noah Davis interviews Austin Araujo, author of At the Park on the Edge of the Country: Poems.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Emily Van Kley's lovely, haunting Letter to America poem is "Refuge," which takes us to a winter estuary, and back to January 1, 2017. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-… #poem #poetry #poet #lettertoamerica #refuge #refuges #birds #winter #estuary #marsh

Letter to America by Emily Van Kley - Terrain.org

Emily Van Kley's lovely, haunting Letter to America poem is "Refuge," which takes us to a winter estuary, and back to January 1, 2017.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

PRAx, Spring Creek Project, and Terrain.org invite poets to create original poems in response to a selection of polar science papers. Submissions close August 26. www.terrain.org/2026/news/poetry-po… #poetry #science #polarscience #submit #submissions

Announcing the Poetry & Polar Science Project: Submissions Close August 26 - Terrain.org

PRAx, Spring Creek Project, and Terrain.org invite poets to create original poems in response to a selection of polar science papers.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Craig van Rooyen's "He Laid the Live Coal Against My Lips" is a beautiful, haunting poem about wildfire. Read and listen now. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/craig-v… #poem #poetry #poet #wildfire #fire #smoke #ash #horses #danger

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

ARTerrain Gallery: Atlas of Dead Birds, paintings by Richard Bohannon—five hauntingly beautiful paintings of extinct birds with family heirlooms, plus narrative. #artist #art #painting #paintings #birds #arterrain #extinction #extingspecies #loss

Atlas of Dead Birds - Terrain.org

ARTerrain Gallery: Atlas of Dead Birds, paintings by Richard Bohannon—five hauntingly beautiful paintings of extinct birds with family heirlooms.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Furries" by Jean Marie Hackett is a delightful story of therianthropy, which our youthful narrator reminds us, is not infamous furries. It's something else entirely, and not without danger. www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/furries #fiction #story #shorstory #furries #therianthropy #moose

Furries - Terrain.org

"Furries" by Jean Marie Hackett is a delightful story of therianthropy, which our youthful narrator reminds us, is not infamous furries.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

{Erika Howsare reviews Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks, by Philip G. Terrie. www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/… #review #nonfiction #adirondacks #wilderness #landscape #place #culture #geography #newyork #history #region

The Meanings of the Mountains: Philip G. Terrie's Wild Forest Lands - Terrain.org

Erika Howsare reviews Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks, by Philip G. Terrie.

Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

On the 250th birthday of America, Rob Carney considers the "Essential American Songbook" assembled by CBS, making a few suggestions. www.terrain.org/2026/currents/crow-… #music #jazz #america #america250 #editorial #songs #americanmusic #songs

Crow Songs - Terrain.org

On the 250th birthday of America, Rob Carney considers the "Essential American Songbook" assembled by CBS, making a few suggestions.

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Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Elizabeth Poliner's lovely poem "Pickard Field, Brunswick, Maine" (with audio) recalls a simple picnic, a poignant foreboding. www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/elizabe… #poem #poetry #poet #field #grass #picnic #memory #inmemoriam

One Poem by Elizabeth Poliner - Terrain.org

Elizabeth Poliner's lovely poem "Pickard Field, Brunswick, Maine" (with audio) recalls a simple picnic, a poignant foreboding.