a journal of reflective environmental practice
by Gary Paul NabhanGuest Contributor I. When plans for the first Earth Day caught my attention in the fall of 1969, I was a curly-haired, sleepy-headed Lebanese-American seventeen year-old who had met only one other Arab-American who called himself an environmentalist: Ralph…
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet by David Carlin & Nicole Walker (Rose Metal Press, 2019), released last week. The co-authors wondered how they, as normal people and writers, might face…
What I think I need is what I can see in front of me. Grass and lilacs, ponderosa pine trees, and seltzer on ice. I am enamored by elephants and cougars and snow leopards and tree frogs, but those are really elements of
The White Mountains in Early June by Terri Kirby Erickson Sky-blue in the forefront, fading to cream in the distance, the White Mountains of New Hampshire rise from jade-green fields and dark evergreen forests, to merge, on this overcast day, with low-hanging…
by J.D. TarletonGuest Contributor Walking to the crepe restaurant the other day I noticed, in the middle of the sidewalk, a swarm of black ants: hundreds of them busy getting their share of something sweet spilt on the concrete. But there was…
by Cherice BockEditor, Whole Terrain This series profiles the authors and artists featured in our latest volume, Breaking Bread. Learn more about the Breaking Bread volume here. Click this link to order Breaking Bread and previous volumes. See also our profiles of Trust contributors and profiles of Metamorphosis…
Editor’s Note: Robin Boyd’s poetry has appeared in Whole Terrain volumes 18: Boundaries, and 21: Metamorphosis. Read more about her in this author profile we conducted in 2015. The following poems will appear in her forthcoming book with Dog Iron Press, Without…
by Tammy Cloutier Former Whole Terrain staff Michael P. Branch’s latest release, How to Cuss in Western (and Other Missives from the High Desert) (Roost Books, 2018), offers readers a variety of short essays about the perils and entertaining moments of life…
by John Greeves Guest Contributor Past generations may not have coined the term “sustainable energy,” but the idea that it is a modern phenomenon can be misleading. Human societies have long relied on water, wind, and tidal energy to service their…
by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain Kim Stafford contributed poems “Our Boy’s Bread” and “Primitive Intelligence” to Whole Terrain’s Breaking Bread volume. Recently named Oregon’s Poet Laureate, Stafford’s poetry flows melodically, forming beauty through the sound of the words as well as the pictures…
