Orion Magazine | Nature, Culture & Place
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Submission Guidelines - Orion Magazine
WEBOrion will accept story submissions or samples to keep on file. We also send out an email call for submissions each issue (just let me know you’d like to be added). The most important thing we can suggest is that you know Orion and consider how your work is appropriate for our pages. Orion is about exploring environmental and social issues ...
The Idea of a Local Economy - Orion Magazine
WEBJan 1, 2001 · For several good reasons, they are beginning with the idea of a local food economy. People are trying to find ways to shorten the distance between producers and consumers, to make the connections between the two more direct, and to make this local economic activity a benefit to the local community. They are trying to …
The Greatest Nature Essay Ever - Orion Magazine
WEBOctober 30, 2008. . . . WOULD BEGIN WITH an image so startling and lovely and wondrous that you would stop riffling through the rest of the mail, take your jacket off, sit down at the table, adjust your spectacles, tell the dog to lie down, tell the kids to make their own sandwiches for heavenssake, that’s why god gave you hands, and read ...
Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy - Orion Magazine
WEBJul 17, 2017 · Orion editor Helen Whybrow speaks with Robin Wall Kimmerer, a speaker of Potawatomi and an enrolled member in the Citizen Band Potawatomi, about how to find a language that affirms our kinship with the natural world. Kimmerer’s essay on the subject, “Speaking of Nature,” appears in the March/April 2017 issue of the magazine.
Speaking of Nature - Orion Magazine
WEBJun 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. The engraved names on overgrown headstones are ...
From the Oldest Forest in Montana - Orion Magazine
WEBJan 31, 2022 · Kootenai National Forest, Montana. The previous administration, in the summer of 2018, built a 200-foot-wide road they called a “fire line,” the year after they first proposed the massacre, hidden on the Canadian border. There was a little four-thousand-acre fire up high, in the rocks, some miles distant and moving away.
Forget Shorter Showers - Orion Magazine
WEBConsumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions presented had to do with personal consumption — changing light bulbs ...
Thirteen Essential Poetry Collections That Pass the Test of Time
WEBRecommended Collections from Established Poets: David Blair recommends Selected Poems, Derek Walcott edited by Edward Baugh. Derek Walcott is one of the great poets of the hemisphere, and syllable by syllable, beat by beat, he has more music to him with his deep ear than any of the other great late twentieth-century formalists, and he ties musical perception to painterly and otherwise physical ...
The Crying Indian - Orion Magazine
WEBNovember/December 2008. January 1, 1970. IF YOU WATCHED television at any point in the seventies, you saw him: America’s most famous Indian. Star of perhaps the best-known public service announcement ever, he was a black-braided, buckskinned, cigar-store native come to life, complete with single feather and stoic frown.