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.https://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3muyy5nrja72fIn his long-running Old Roads, New Stories series, Rob Carney gifts us a new poem in his new psalm series: "Economy Psalm." https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/economy-psalm/ #poem #poetry #poet #psalms #economy #attic #attics #metaphor #home #homes08 Sep 2026 12:03 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3muyy5nrja72fhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3muowhi5ydb23"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. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-wenqi/ #poem #poet #poetry #lettertoamerica #politicalpoetry #shame #war #cliff04 Sep 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3muowhi5ydb23https://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mumfuz32kf23"A Lit Window Is Someone Awake" is a beautiful story from Sharon Wahl's award-winning book Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances. https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/a-lit-window-is-someone-awake/ #fiction #story #shortstory #excerpt #scientists #sisters #death #student #teacher #fate03 Sep 2026 12:04 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumfuz32kf23https://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mujvg435pj2gFardokht 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 https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/fardokht-gorouhi/02 Sep 2026 12:04 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujvg435pj2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3muhf2rjxyd22"Into the Mountains" is the prologue to the terrific new book by Joe Wilkins, Every Sky at Home: Essays on Landscape and Family. https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/into-the-mountains/ #essay #nonfiction #excerpt #mountains #family #childhood #montana #oregon #iowa #camping #cabin #wilderness01 Sep 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhf2rjxyd22https://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mugbhrl74y2yJulie 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. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-julie-l-moore/ #poetry #poem #lettertoamerica #tulsamassacre01 Sep 2026 01:30 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mugbhrl74y2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mueultq3ij2hDolapo Demuren's "American Dream Sonnet Where Children Learn to Read" is a sonnet unlike any you've read before, with audio. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/dolapo-demuren/ #poem #poet #poetry #books #children #trees #pines #forest #reading31 Aug 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mueultq3ij2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mudkzeqq6s2pCheck out the latest in Terrain.org in our Terrain.org This Week update on Substack: https://terrainorg.substack.com/p/carework-as-climate-work-farm-life https://Terrain.org30 Aug 2026 23:42 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mudkzeqq6s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mu2tailijz2hTurning 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 https://www.terrain.org/2026/interviews/madison-murphy-barney/27 Aug 2026 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2tailijz2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mtyzkjpjfs2hToday (August 26) is the last day to submit to Poetry & Polar Science! Review the guidelines and scientific papers and submit here: https://springcreekproject.submittable.com/submit/359516/poetry-polar-science26 Aug 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyzkjpjfs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mtyck7sqta25Dennis Vannatta's "Farm Life" is a delightful story about a cow stuck in a pond and a farmer's hope to save her. https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/farm-life/ #fiction #story #shorstory #farm #farming #cow #cows #rural #mishap #danger #pond #cattle #dimentia #marriage26 Aug 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyck7sqta25https://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mtvrshp7fj2m"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 https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/carework-as-climate-work/25 Aug 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvrshp7fj2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mttbtiknzp2cTwo beautiful, powerful poems (with audio) by ethan s. evans: "fentanyl" and "adam". https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/ethan-s-evans/ #poetry #poems #poet #body #relationships #flowers #wasps #fentanyl #drugs #ozonelayer24 Aug 2026 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttbtiknzp2chttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mtj7lazc4o26BK 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 https://www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/lifelines/20 Aug 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtj7lazc4o26https://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mtgpbru5l72xHalen J.D. Price's "Metamorphosis" kicks off the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/halen-jd-price/ #poem #poetry #poet #youth #washington #butterfly #butterflies #ecopoetry19 Aug 2026 12:12 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgpbru5l72xhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mte6csakod26In 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." https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/heat-treatment/ #youth #wildfire #town #danger #risk #family #fiction #shortstory18 Aug 2026 12:03 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mte6csakod26https://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mtbz6tx3ic27Washington 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 https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/words-woods-wellness-world/17 Aug 2026 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbz6tx3ic27https://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mt254oflww27Three 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 https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/cathryn-essinger/14 Aug 2026 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt254oflww27https://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3msv3s7bhbl2zBrian 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 https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/murder-on-second-avenue/12 Aug 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msv3s7bhbl2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3msq2w7hfb42jIn his long-running Old Roads, New Stories series, Rob Carney gifts us a new poem: "Weather Psalm." https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/weather-psalm/ #poetry #poem #poet #weather #psalm #sky #clouds #future10 Aug 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msq2w7hfb42jhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3msdi742hpy27Leath Tonino's "Castaway" is a powerful Letter to America, a tragic fable really, that speaks to our exploring, conquering history. https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/castaway/ #lettertoamerica #america #history #explorers #conquerers #legacy #poison #fable05 Aug 2026 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdi742hpy27https://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3msay5cowa52cDiana 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 https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/january-5-surviving-winter/04 Aug 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msay5cowa52chttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3ms6hm5erwj2bIn this episode of the Terrain.org podcast, Tamara Dean speaks with our nonfiction editors: Elizabeth Dodd, Achilles Seastrom, Jennifer Case, and Eric Aldrich. https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/nonfiction-editors-roundtable/ #editing #publishing #writing #editors #nonfiction #bees03 Aug 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6hm5erwj2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mrug6xru2w2gJesse 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 https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/jesse-breite-logan-blanco/30 Jul 2026 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrug6xru2w2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/terrainorg.bsky.social/post/3mrrvijwqwg2bIn "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. https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/matthew-johnson/ #poem #poetry #poet #river #housatonicriver #massachusetts #connecticut #rivers #change #names29 Jul 2026 12:12 +0000at://did:plc:xtwgehlaskpeidyeq3wt3nt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrrvijwqwg2b