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Gift Thinking - Orion Magazine
Nov 19, 2024 · JO: I sometimes feel that in an individualistic culture, people get freaked out by the idea of being tied down or responsible for anything. Thinking about a gift economy, they might say, “I want the gift part but not the accountability part.” Lately, I’ve been volunteering in this native plant restoration group, and one of the most surprising parts has …
Old Growth: The Best Writing About Trees From Orion
Aug 17, 2021 · Now in its third printing! “This book is an arboretum of essays, not showcasing ‘trees’ as a class of beings, but rather stories of interspecies relationships of an arboreal kind, as diverse in scope as trees are in leaf.”” — Robin Wall Kimmerer. Orion Magazine presents Old Growth, an anthology of essays and poems about the rich inner lives of trees.
Submission Guidelines - Orion Magazine
STORY PITCHES: OPEN JAN 1 – 15, 2025. Our next pitch window for story submissions is open on January 1-15, 2025. We’re accepting pitches for Orion’s Fall 2025 issue Natural Rhythm: Tracing the ancestral roots of hip hop, guest edited by award-winning author and poet Hanif Abdurraqib.. Send us your pitches on the environments in which songs are conceived and recorded, the histories of ...
i Nature and Justice TOUCHING THE EARTH by bell hooks I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
Wild and Domestic - Orion Magazine
I. GARY SNYDER SAID that we know our minds are wild because of the difficulty of making ourselves think what we think we ought to think. II. That is the fundamental sense of “wild” or of “wilderness”: undomesticated, unrestrained, out of control, disorderly.
Of Water and Wonder - Orion Magazine
Nov 18, 2024 · IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING Hurricane Milton, a NASA spacecraft called the Europa Clipper departed Florida’s inundated coast. It’s mission was over twenty years in the making: to determine if Jupiter’s moon Europa—1.8 billion miles away and thought to have a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy crust—can support life.
Seven Questions for Camille Dungy, Orion ’s New Poetry Editor
Aug 4, 2020 · It brings us great pleasure that, beginning with the Autumn 2020 issue, Camille Dungy will take on the role as Orion’s poetry editor.After five years, former editor Aimee Nezhukumatathil has decided to move on as she launches a new book and deepens her teaching and writing practice. Luckily for us, Aimee will remain close as an Orion columnist. (Here is her five-year editorial retrospective.)
Writing the Greater-than-Human World: Generative Poetry Writing ...
Nov 15, 2024 · The Course Writing the Greater-than-Human World. Our poetry workshop will focus on poems and various poetics that seek to move beyond a solely human perspective to adopt the concerns and perspectives of the other living beings we share the world with.
Environmental Writers' Summer Workshop | Orion Magazine
LOGISTICS. Travel: The Omega Institute is located in Rhinebeck, New York, with access to major airports and public transportation. Tuition and Board: Tuition is $1200 ($1100 early bird rate if you register by March 15th).Additional room and board fees vary based on your choice of accommodation and range from $495-1500. When successful applicants call Omega, they will be given various housing ...