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Fern leaves in sunlight

One Poem by Michael Garrigan

Beaded dress from Palestine market

Currents Podcast

No One Will Know You Tomorrow

Terrain.org Podcast: Season 2, Episode 3

Southern Sierra Nevadas in afternoon light

Contest Nonfiction

Entanglement

By Kelly R. McGuire
Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Nonfiction Winner

Yosemite at sunrise

Dear America

Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance & Democracy

Poetry

Fern leaves in sunlight

One Poem by Michael Garrigan

Chicory in afternoon light

Three Poems by Hayden Park

Three Poems by Laura Long

Porch at sunset

Three Poems by Daniel Lassell

Nonfiction

Southern Sierra Nevadas in afternoon light

Entanglement

By Kelly R. McGuire
Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Nonfiction Winner

Silhouette of girl at beach at sunset

(Un)usual Mortality Event

Trees with smoking ground following prescribed burn

Sleep or Something Like It

Hurricane Helene Diptych

What Remains
After Hurricane Helene

Fiction

Silhouette of hawksbill turtle from below

Sumbisori

By Jay McKenzie
Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Fiction Winner

Into the A Horizon

Cowboys

Dog in flowery field with golden light

A Piece of Work

Interviews

Athabasca Glacier

Open Up the Silence:
An Interview with Sarah Boon

By Melissa L. Sevigny

Looking Out from
the Inscape of the Self:
An Interview with Elizabeth Bradfield

Oarsperson view from raft on Colorado River

Water Shapes Everything:
A Conversation on Western Rivers

Green acorn on tree

There Is No Line:
An Interview with Elspeth Hay

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Ongoing and limited-run series, editorials, and perspective.

Letters to America

Reconciliation, sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos

Letter to America
by Phyllis Klein

One Poem

A Life of Science

Flooding along the Rio Copan in Honduras following Hurricane Iota

Satellites Show, Stories Tell

By Elise Arellano-Thompson

Climate Stories

Offering One

Quiet Fruit: Photographs

By Melinda Hurst Frye

Guest Editorials

Upper Colorado River

Built on Dry Ground: The Water Reckoning in the West

Guest Editorial by Joe Whitworth

Rob Carney's Old Roads, New Stories

Witch cauldron and crystals outdoors

Why We Tell Stories

Moon phases at dusk over silhouette of mountains

From Birds to Whales to Birthdays

Also, the Universe Purrs

Statue of woman reading, with sun in background

But They Can’t Ban the Sun

Other Editorials and Series

AI Weigh Way

Steeped in the Waters,
the Land, the Love

Santa Cruz beach and lighthouse at sunset

Not One Place

Into Heights and Pauses

ARTerrain Galleries

(In)Visible Landscapes:
Drawings on Collaged Paper

By Elzbieta Sikorska

Artwork from Threshold 32°F

Threshold 32°F
Art, Poetry & Field Notes

By Klara Maisch, Debbie Clarke Moderow, and Rebecca E. Hewitt

Discarded monster truck tires

Warming | Warning

Triptychs by B.A. Van Sise

Ascending, by Julie Brook

The Land and Tidal Art of Julie Brook

Part 2: Ascending

Unsprawl Case Studies

Aerial view of Mueller Pond and Mueller's greenspace

Mueller

Austin, Texas

Aerial autumn view of South Main

South Main

Buena Vista, Colorado

Brunswick Station train platform

Brunswick Station

Brunswick, Maine

Downtown Philadelphia

Green City, Clean Waters

Philadelphia’s 25-Year Plan
for Stormwater Management

Reviews

Reconciling Wonder and Work:
A Reflection on The Place of Tides

Review by Jessica Gigot

Trash on beach with joggers at sunset

The Nature of Our Times:
Poetry as the Art of Activism

Review by Tom Montgomery Fate

Snakes Versus Rats (Versus Humans)

Tucker Coombe Reviews Slither and Stowaway

Sunrays through redwood trunks

A Preparation for Action:
Review of Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology

By Ann Leamon

Podcast

Beaded dress from Palestine market

No One Will Know You Tomorrow

Terrain.org Podcast: Season 2, Episode 3

Black-and-white tree illustration

In the Circle of Ancient Trees

Terrain.org Podcast: Season 2, Episode 2

Painting of a great blue heron by Daniela Gallego

The Gift of Animals

Terrain.org Podcast: Season 2, Episode 1

Driftless Region of Wisconsin

Soil, Story, and Shelter

Terrain.org Podcast Episode 10

Sunrise at Yosemite

Dear America

LETTERS OF HOPE, HABITAT, DEFIANCE & DEMOCRACY

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Latest News

4, painting by Klara Maisch

Terrain.org’s 2026 Pushcart Prize + Best of the Net Nominations

Mountain and trees silhouette at sunset

Terrain.org Announces the Winners of the 16th Annual Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction Contests!

Emily Grandy

Emily Grandy Wins the 2025 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize for the Novel Cupido Cupido

Sowell Emerging Writers Prize

Announcing the 2025 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize Finalists

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Reviews + Recommended Reads

Reconciling Wonder and Work:
A Reflection on The Place of Tides

Review by Jessica Gigot