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Pick Your Poem: 6 Poems to Transport You into the Natural World
Apr 2, 2024 · 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 world is as deeply personal as it is beautifully universal. Combined, these words are an enticing invitation to see ...
Burnout - Orion Magazine
Dec 3, 2024 · I have been walking the yin and yang of my Southern Appalachian homeland. But even now that I’m acquainted with both sides of these mountains, I’m not sure how to balance artificial light and natural darkness in my nightly life, within myself.
Farewell Transmission - Orion Magazine
May 22, 2024 · On the collective genius of Jason Molina’s Magnolia Electric Co. IF YOU BELIEVE the legend (and I have no reason to doubt it), in July 2002, Jason Molina—who’d recorded six previous albums under the moniker Songs: Ohia—set up in a Chicago recording studio, where a rotating cast of musical collaborators joined him.Many of these musicians hadn’t before played together, and in some ...
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.
The Vaster Wilds: A Conversation with Lauren Groff
Nov 8, 2023 · The character at the center of Lauren Groff’s new novel, The Vaster Wilds, is on the run, and though for a long time we’re not quite sure what from, you can at least measure the trauma by what she’s willing to endure to get away from it: fever, starvation, sleeplessness, nightmares of being sniffed and licked by wild beasts, and …
Artist Shaun Tan Makes the Familiar Strange - Orion Magazine
Oct 26, 2022 · Kyo Maclear: First, let me say what a delight it was to spend time with your beautiful book.Can you talk about the origins of Creature?. Shaun Tan: Books for me are a bit like planets. Initially, there’s a lot of gas and dust floating around in space – different ideas, sketches, notes – and through some gravity of their own, these things gather into something with mass, density, and (if ...
Strange New World - Orion Magazine
Oct 22, 2024 · KJY: When you’re thinking about technological and scientific advancement in the real world, what percentage feels exciting versus terrifying? JV: 30 / 70. VD: Absolution contains a few of the gnarliest horror sequences I’ve ever read.I love horror and if there’s ever a movie adaptation, I’ll be sitting front and center, waiting for the face-melting puddle scene.
The Unlikely Success of Wingspan - Orion Magazine
She said her initial inspiration for Wingspan came from both a love for board games and a frustration over their typical topics and themes. From battling enemies to settling lands, the trends of popular games have long focused on economic and colonialist ideas, and a quick review of ranking sites reveals descriptions filled with terms like “grow industries,” “vanquish monsters,” and ...
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