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Terrain.org : A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
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ISSN (Print) 1932-9474
Published by Terrain.org

[1 journal]

North Beach Posse by Dickson Lam
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  Abstract: he name of our housing project, North Beach, was misleading. North Beach was up the hill. We were closer to Fisherman’s Wharf. Our backyard was Alcatraz, crab stands, and sea lions down at the pier sunbathing. A salty breeze wandered our streets. Right smack between the two blocks of our housing projects was a […]The post North Beach Posse
  by Dickson Lam appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Wed, 30 May 2018 15:00:59 +000
Old Roads, New Stories: Environmental Clean-Up by Rob Carney
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  Abstract: A Literary Series Salt Lake City: It made the newspaper here—this weed that’s swallowed the foothills and taken hold in places inaccessible to mountain goats, this weed that you can’t cut back because its sap is a milky burning poison, this weed that burned my hands and burned my face when I […]The post Old Roads, New Stories:
  Environmental Clean-Up
  by Rob Carney appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Mon, 28 May 2018 15:00:13 +000
Letter to America by Victoria Chang
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  Abstract: Click button above to hear Victoria Chang read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Obit America—died on February 14, 2018, and my dead mother doesn’t know. Since her death, America has died a series of small deaths, each one less precise than the next. My tears are […]The post Letter to America
  by Victoria Chang appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Fri, 25 May 2018 15:00:59 +000
One Poem by Jesse Breite
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  Abstract: Click button above to hear Jesse Breite read this poem, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. Helm 1940-2012 I can hear Levon singing Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! just as clear as the land curves into cropping fields, gold mirrors of water, the late-coming shadows over hills, smell of pine, as […]The post One Poem
  by Jesse Breite appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Wed, 23 May 2018 15:00:54 +000
Spill Stories: GENTLEMAN BURNS by Kevin Mosby
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  Abstract: The following narrative is faithful to the facts presented in the official reported narrative of Gas Distribution Spill Report, ID #19880188, though some creative license has been taken, and the tense has been changed. All text IN CAPS has been taken directly from the official report. At some point […]The post Spill Stories:
  GENTLEMAN BURNS
  by Kevin Mosby appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Mon, 21 May 2018 15:00:54 +000
A Life of Science: Extreme Gardening in the Rocky Mountains by Lorah
Patterson
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  Abstract: A Series by New Scientists It was early morning and the clouds hung low in the Colorado valley. “Get on your feet! Ba doo da doo be bop! Get up and make it happen!” we sang to Gloria Estefan. My field assistant’s ringtone had become our cold, pre-dawn motivational theme song as we […]The post A Life of Science:
  Extreme Gardening in the Rocky Mountains
  by Lorah Patterson appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Thu, 17 May 2018 15:00:47 +000
Spill Stories: How to Catch a Leak by Miranda Trimmier
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  Abstract: 1. The first problem, of course, is that gas is odorless and invisible. Before natural gas was a commodity oil drillers happened upon it while poking around for what they actually wanted. Early coal miners stumbled on a version of the gas, too, and, in the stuffy shafts of their workplace, […]The post Spill Stories:
  How to Catch a Leak
  by Miranda Trimmier appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Mon, 14 May 2018 16:00:00 +000
Two Poems by Lauren Camp
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  Abstract: Click button above to hear Lauren Camp read this poem, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. Red Bird (Agnes Martin Speaks) Mesa Portales, New Mexico A line can’t hold anything, but could be long or longer than a pulse. Toward breeze or toward the flash of fish, wherever it’s […]The post Two Poems
  by Lauren Camp appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Sun, 13 May 2018 15:00:37 +000
Letter to America by John Janovy, Jr.
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  Abstract: Guest Editorial Dear America, We as a nation are being drowned by a narrative of fear and anger that now drives policy decisions at political levels from city councils to the White House. It is a fundamental cultural problem based on disdain for science, distrust of real data, and a willful ignorance of […]The post Letter to America
  by John Janovy, Jr. appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Fri, 11 May 2018 15:00:59 +000
Review: Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge
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  Abstract: Jamie Moore reviews Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge, poems by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo Sundress Publications | 2016 | ISBN: 1939675421 | 118 pages n Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo examines the themes of home and place in ways that reveal the personal while connecting to the communities around her. Bermejo uses […]The post Review:
  Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Thu, 10 May 2018 15:00:32 +000
But You Could Laugh at Our Hopelessness / Sky Solidified / Poem by Nano
Taggart Painting by Andrew Marvick
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  Abstract: Click button above to hear Nano Taggart read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. But You Could Laugh at Our Hopelessness After Andrew Marvick’s Sky Solidified A hard division splits two panes to the right of center. Graffiti climbs from its concrete and inhabits us […]The post But You Could Laugh at Our Hopelessness
  / Sky Solidified /
  Poem by Nano Taggart
  Painting by Andrew Marvick appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Wed, 09 May 2018 15:00:38 +000
Spill Stories: Drag Racing to the End of the World by Alison Hawthorne
Deming
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  Abstract: don’t blame the men. They grew up in middle America, a few miles east of Chicagoland Speedway—the roar and burnt rubber where man measures himself against man and machine. Their town is any town: Walmart, Chili’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, AMC, Sanctuary Golf Course. Subdivisions fill design schemes that make New Lenox […]The post Spill Stories:
  Drag Racing to the End of the World
  by Alison Hawthorne Deming appeared first on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
  PubDate: Mon, 07 May 2018 15:00:16 +000