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WEBOrion brings ideas, writers, photographers, and artists together, focused on nature, the environment, and culture, addressing environmental and societal issues.
Speaking of Nature - Orion Magazine
WEBMarch/April 2017. June 12, 2017. A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths beneath rewilding oaks.
Sixteen Poetry Recommendations for National Native American …
WEBNov 10, 2021 · Poetry. Sixteen Poetry Recommendations for National Native American Heritage Month. By Camille T. Dungy. November 10, 2021. JOIN US for another round of poetry recommendations, this time in celebration of the rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and contributions of Native people. Follow these poets …
When Suffering Goes Viral - Orion Magazine
WEBI knew already that this neighborhood—Kensington—and particularly the ten-block radius around Kensington and Allegheny, is, according to my local news site, Billy Penn, “the aortic valve of the region’s opioid crisis,” or, as described in a New York Times Magazine piece despised by many Philadelphians for its parachute journalism, “the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin ...
Six Questions for the Author: Once There Were Wolves
WEBAug 4, 2021 · Charlotte McConaghy is the author of the novels Migrations, a national bestseller that is being translated into over twenty languages, and Once There Were Wolves. She is based in Sydney, Australia. Julie Carrick Dalton ’s debut novel, Waiting for the Night Song, was a CNN, Newsweek, Parade, and …
Kinship Is a Verb - Orion Magazine
WEBNov 16, 2021 · Kinship Is a Verb. By Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Hausdoerffer. November 16, 2021. THE FOLLOWING IS A CONVERSATION between Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer, and Gavin Van Horn, the coeditors of the five-volume series Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Center for …
What Slime Knows - Orion Magazine
WEBAug 19, 2021 · What Slime Knows. “Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.”. IT IS SPRING IN HOUSTON, which means that each day the temperature rises and so does the humidity. The bricks of my house sweat. In my yard the damp air condenses on the leaves of the crepe myrtle tree; a shower falls from the branches with the slightest breeze.
The Best of Wendell Berry - Orion Magazine
WEBAug 5, 2020 · January 2007. A story from the center of the world. Best Video: Fire & Grit Plenary Talk (26 minutes) Summer 1999. Berry delivered this talk in June 1999 during an Orion conference, Fire & Grit, which took place in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Wendell Berry has been an Orion contributor and advisor since the magazine’s beginnings in 1982.
Environmental Writers' Summer Workshop | Orion Magazine
WEBWhether your passion is nonfiction, fiction, or poetry, the Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop is a creative laboratory for anyone seeking to reflect their environments through their work. The course features breakout sessions dedicated to intensive craft practice, faculty readings and lectures, student readings, and panels on publishing.
Artist Shaun Tan Makes the Familiar Strange - Orion Magazine
WEBOct 26, 2022 · For those who may be unaware, Shaun Tan is one of the most lauded contemporary illustrators in the world, a revered cult figure among fellow creators, and deservingly so. He grew up in West Australia amid “the forested southwest, the arid north, the vast inland desert, the endless beaches.”. He spins strange tales that rearrange habitual ...