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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 ...
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 …
The Best of Wendell Berry - Orion Magazine
Wendell Berry has been an Orion contributor and advisor since the magazine’s beginnings in 1982. Berry is the author of over forty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and has farmed in Port Royal, Kentucky, for over forty years.
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 ...
Writing the Greater-than-Human World: Generative Poetry Writing ...
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.
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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 ...
Four Questions for the Author: Timothy Morton, Being Ecological
Sep 22, 2018 · Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence; Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (with Marcus Boon and Eric Cazdyn); H yperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, and other books.. His most recent book, Being Ecological (MIT Press), is “a book about ecology without information ...
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 ...