Orion Magazine | Nature, Culture & Place
WEBOrion brings ideas, writers, photographers, and artists together, focused on nature, the environment, and culture, addressing environmental and societal issues.
Submission Guidelines - Orion Magazine
WEBOrion will accept story submissions or samples to keep on file. We also send out an email call for submissions each issue (just let me know you’d like to be added). The most important thing we can suggest is that you know Orion and consider how your work is appropriate for our pages. Orion is about exploring environmental and social issues ...
Sixteen Poetry Recommendations for National Native American …
WEBNov 10, 2021 · Recommendations from Poet Friends: Felicia Zamora recommends:. Little Big Bully. by Heid Erdrich . The voices in Heid Edrich’s Little Big Bully (winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series) meticulously interrogate the origins of violence, the inceptions of bullies—from the learned cruelty of children (“little bullies scripted so early/ they make one big bully decree”), to the genocide ...
Crowded Planet - Orion Magazine
WEBAug 29, 2013 · OVER THE COURSE of the past one hundred years, we humans have grown in population at a rate rarely seen outside of a petri dish. Alan Weisman, author of the best-selling The World Without Us, spent two years traveling to twenty nations to investigate what this population explosion means for our species as well as those we share the planet with — and, most importantly, what we can do about it.
The Greatest Nature Essay Ever - Orion Magazine
WEBOctober 30, 2008. . . . WOULD BEGIN WITH an image so startling and lovely and wondrous that you would stop riffling through the rest of the mail, take your jacket off, sit down at the table, adjust your spectacles, tell the dog to lie down, tell the kids to make their own sandwiches for heavenssake, that’s why god gave you hands, and read ...
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.
Joe Wilkins - - Orion Magazine
WEBJoe Wilkins is the author of the novel Fall Back Down When I Die, which was short-listed for the First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, and the award-winning memoir The Mountain and the Fathers.He has published four books of poetry, including Thieve and When We Were Birds, winner of the Oregon Book Award, and his stories, essays, and poems have appeared in the Georgia Review, the ...
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 ...
The Art of Soil: How One Scientist Uses Dirt to Make Art
WEBBy Karen Vaughan. June 15, 2022. As scientists around the world comb through the soil in search of the origins of the Anthropocene, our anniversary issue takes inspiration from people like Karen Vaughan, who finds truth in a peculiar marriage of art and geology. Vaughan is a scientist, paint maker, educator, mom, and artist.
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 …