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Ada Limón - - Orion Magazine
Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her work has been supported most recently by a …
Speaking of Nature - Orion Magazine
March/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.
Pick Your Poem: 6 Poems to Transport You into the Natural World
Apr 2, 2024 · Six poems from and for the natural world. Edited by Ada Limón. AS PART OF HER tenure as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and in association with the Library of Congress, Ada Limón commissioned fifty-two contemporary American poets to reflect on their place in the natural world. The resulting anthology of original poems grounded in the natural ...
Truck - Orion Magazine
By Erin C. Connor. January 1, 1970. Michael Perry is an ordinary guy living in Auburn, a small town in Wisconsin, with a not-so-ordinary ability to capture the small events that, once laced together, make up the colorful fabric of life. He begins the year, and his book, modestly enough, with a desire to restore his old International truck ...
Protecting the Prairie - Orion Magazine
The Prairie Abides. THE MOVEMENT TO CONSERVE grasslands, though lesser known than most environmental causes, is gaining momentum and support—sometimes in fraught places. In 2021, the NRCS launched its Great Plains Grassland Initiative, which supports landowners fighting woody encroachment in core rangeland areas—a ranching-centric model that befits …
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - Orion Magazine
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. By Ginger Strand. January 1, 1970. THE YOUNG CHARACTERS IN Karen Russell’s debut collection of short stories inhabit a rich and strange fictional landscape. They navigate the perennial sea changes of growing up — shifting alliances, emerging sexuality, and a growing awareness of death — but ...
The Best of Wendell Berry - Orion Magazine
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.
On Reviving Rachel Carson’s Long-Forgotten Television Script
Mar 5, 2024 · A young viewer had submitted a request to see “something about the sky.”. Moved by the youthful wondering, Carson wrote a script, and the segment, “Something about the Sky,” aired on March 11, 1956. Orion sent the excerpts available publicly from this long-forgotten project. The parts were mostly about clouds.
Future Imperfect - Orion Magazine
Natural Succession. Orion is proud to present a new four-part series, Future Imperfect, dedicated to the crises we’ve inherited and the uneasy compromises they’ve forced upon us.