Painting the Snow by Vivian Drescher The ExperienceI find myself in the cold winter wood, slightly off the path. Looking ahead, I discover a gap in the trees basking in the light of the moon. The area, foreign to me; is it a lake or is it just a field? Will [...]
An Interview with Environmental Artist Sheila Novak I first met Sheila in 2024 at a book club event in Ithaca—an intimate, monthly gathering focused on exploring themes of environmentalism and outdoor recreation through literature. Since then, we've both become regular participants, finding shared inspiration in the stories and conversations that unfold. [...]
Sonnet with Character Triangle You were a doting bee on purple asters and whenever I opened the back gate trying to reach my Subaru by the garage, I disturbed you. We could’ve pruned a path, but I didn’t want to remove your favorite spot. Love was an overgrown hedge like a [...]
~Click images above to enlarge.~ Jake Nixon first looked through a camera during a backpacking trip in 2014. He was instantly hooked and took more than 2,000 photos on the 11-day trip. Photography quickly became the preferred method for Jake to share the beauty [...]
Ask Grief “…having perceived you as [one] who is ‘a greater myself’…” —Teilhard de Chardin I do learn to free the things winging into the cage of me. When the pink morning makes the orange trees blaze, there is no saying no to something that holds that [...]
On some sort of edgeby Izze M-K in the bathouse at midnight alone becoming black oil shadowed against the (dark blue) the sun was tempered in a net downtown(dark blue) somehow again it is morning and the newly vapored sun has slipped through i rise and flap [...]
Terrariumby Sam Anderson What I resent you for most, Giant, is not ripping me away from my family. It’s not the fading rations I find in these impossible crystal walls. It is not the insistent pounding of great grubby fingers that vibrate into my core. No, Giant. It is the robbery of [...]
from Avenueby Chris Holdaway At the risk of reality: the plaster sky is crashing down. Roads delirious with their own markings and the event horizon of train tracks running out of sight splits earth with the silence of vision. The dreams of private cathedrals arrive at crossroads and [...]
Power of Coldby Ian Cotter The most beautiful and the most painful experiences I’ve ever had as a human being have taken place in the wilderness. Backpacking and hiking, I’ve found, have the remarkable capacity to crush your spirit and rebuild it again, in the same fatal blow. One such time [...]
Willkómmen to Cascadiaby Sean Stiny Cutting a trail through a light snow, mashing the leaves under our boots into a russet porridge, we made haste up the closed campground road and reached the trailhead in the lee of the mountain. On approach, a flash of gold lit up the hillside. Then another. [...]
