Three gorgeous poems by Amy Miller, with audio, kick off the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Poetry finalists.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/amy-miller-2/
#poems #poetry #poet #trees #insects #birds #night #sky #spiders
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Three gorgeous poems by Amy Miller, with audio, kick off the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Poetry finalists.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/amy-miller-2/
#poems #poetry #poet #trees #insects #birds #night #sky #spiders
Alan Sincic's delightful story "A Piece of Work" is a semifinalist in the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Fiction, and not to be missed.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/a-piece-of-work/
#story #fiction #shortstory #dogs
In "Why We Tell Stories," Rob Carney weaves prose and poetry in a beautiful new addition to his "Old Roads, New Stories" column.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/old-roads-new-stories/why-we-tell-stories/
#editorial #storytelling #stories #witches #neighbors #prose #poetry
In Susan Cohen's Letter to America prose poem "Messenger from the Sea-God's Palace," a Doomsday fish washes up on a California beach. What message does it bring?
https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-cohen/
#poem #lettertoamerica
Singaporean writer Sabrina Lim Fang's "Lionesses" is a beautiful story of family and food, childhood and being cherished, love and loss. Don't miss this one.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/lionesses/
#story #fiction #family #lions #memory #loss
Read my interview with @melissasevigny.bsky.social in @terrainorg.bsky.social - Melissa is such a great interviewer, she brought out things I hadn't even thought about. www.terrain.org/2026/intervi...
10.02.2026 18:51 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3I really enjoyed interviewing Sarah Boon, author of MELTDOWN, about glaciers, #womeninstem, #mentalhealth. As she says, it's time to "open up the silence" about mental health in academia. Give it a read. @terrainorg.bsky.social @snowhydro.bsky.social
10.02.2026 19:00 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0An underwater photo of deep, blue water.
"In the sinkhole
remains
a turtle. How democracy
dies. She crawls"
Contributor Stella Wong's poem "Letter to America" is published in @terrainorg.bsky.social. We know you'll love it ๐ buff.ly/Dq9DDUQ
โItโs a fantasy land the J6ers are shilling
Itโs a magical place
Elvis is back in the buildingโฆโ
Vernita Hallโs poem โJust Like Usโ is published in @terrainorg.bsky.social & featured in our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list! Read it here: www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
Reconciling wonder and work: Jessica Gigot reviews James Rebanks's nonfiction book, The Place of Tides.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/the-place-of-tides/
#review #nonfiction #work #wonder #norway #ducks #islands #vegaarchipelago
New today in @terrainorg.bsky.social, an interview with the amazing ecopoet Elizabeth Bradfield. "If we truly open ourselves, a walk around the block at home can become a mystery." ๐๐๐ www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
09.12.2025 18:35 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Lovely essay by @irisdunkle.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐
11.12.2025 13:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"A breeze enters the field and thousands of grass tips scribble up and down as if they are signing their names on the wind. Their wild movement is a testament to how they are rooted. This triumph of allowance teaches me something I cannot fully grasp."
18.12.2025 14:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โTheir wild movement is a testament to how they are rooted.โ Love this.
22.12.2025 19:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Angels I've Known" is a lush Letter to America poem (with audio) by Dorothy Wall about Paradise Lost, book bans in Florida, and more.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-wall/
#poem #poetry #poet #politicalpoetry #bookbans #gardens #paradise
Honored to be nominated for a Pushcart by @terrainorg.bsky.social for my story โSea Minksโ www.terrain.org/2025/fiction...
29.12.2025 01:19 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Watching the moon her mood turned
from black to blue
to wholly new"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Cherita by Wendy Videlock (2023 @terrainorg.bsky.social) www.terrain.org/2023/poetry/...
Lisbeth White has an incredible poem โWhat do we tell the water now?โ up at @terrainorg.bsky.social in their โLetter to Americaโ series. Hereโs an excerpt, and you can read the whole at: www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/.... ๐ @earthmaven.bsky.social
06.01.2026 17:10 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is a gorgeous essay.
08.01.2026 13:08 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"At seventeen, I married thunder
and wind and snow. I took vows."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The World It Was by Chase Twichell (2025 @terrainorg.bsky.social) www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/...
Read #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow Tom Montgomery Fateโs new review, โPoetry as the Art of Activism,โ @terrainorg.bsky.social.
He says: "What readers will find is that this 'joyful resistance' springs from the poetsโ radical attentiveness to the world around them..."
www.terrain.org/2026/reviews...
"come back wildlife" by Subhaga Crystal Bacon is a fascinating erasure poem (with audio) from the new Washington anthology, On Resilience.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/subhaga-crystal-bacon/
#poem #poet #poetry #erasurepoem #washington #deer #land
"Song of Our Saints in the Sears Parking Lot" by Misty Shipman is a stunning poem excerpted from the new Washington anthology On Resilience.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/misty-shipman/
#poem #poet #poetry #washington #body #coast #reservation
NatureCultureยฎ's Lis McLoughlin introduces On Resilience: Stories of Climate Adaptation Across Washington's Landscapes, a new poetry anthology.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/learning-resilience/
#anthology #poetry #ecpoetry #washington #land
Stella Wong's letter to America poem "Cenote" is a subtle, image-rich metaphor for the death of democracy.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-wong/
#poem #poetry #poet #politicalpoetry #lettertoamerica #cenote #turtles #dive
In "From Birds to Whales to Birthdays," the newest column from Rob Carney, he celebrates Christopher Smart and each moon of the month. Don't miss this jubilation!
https://www.terrain.org/2026/old-roads-new-stories/birds-whales-birthdays/
#celebration #newyear
Amy Amoroso's "Into the Light" (with audio) is a beautiful essay of family, grief, anxiety, darkness, and light in the age of pandemics and climate change.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/into-the-light/
#essay #nonfiction #climate #children #family
Two stellar if not lamenting poems by Chase Twichell, with audio: "The Mind-Body Problem" and "The World It Was."
https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/chase-twichell/
#poems #poetry #poet #loss #world #earth #ecopoetry #crows #memory #childhood
"We Who Hold Up the World" by Shaunna Oteka McCovey is an excerpt of Campfire Stories: The Redwood Coast - Tales & Travel Companion, edited by Ilyssa Kyu and Dave Kyu.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/we-who-hold-up-the-world/
#nonfiction #legend #native #story
Tucker Coombe reviews Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World and Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat.
https://www.terrain.org/2025/reviews-reads/slither-stowaway/
#review #books #rats #snakes #history #naturalhistory