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A Home for Alfie

A little owl, a big world, a hard-won home
Carl Safina

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Ross Gay Answers the Orion Questionnaire

By Ross Gay

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Orion contributing editor Ross Gay is a poet, essayist, professor, and devoted gardener. If you’ve Continue reading →

Left: A colorful, active illustration. In the center is a large, old tree with waving branches and roots. The roots spiral and descend loosely around a central textured sphere, within which are shown the words Soils Spirit Forest. From the bottom of the roots grow two dark human arms, colored as the tree bark. They dig into the soil below the tree, with a glowing illumination emerging from the soil and between the hands. Flowers and an amanita muscaria mushroom grow around the tree roots. At the top left of the image, above the tree and somewhat resembling clouds, is shown an old colonial map with names such as ‘New England’ and ‘Nova Scotia’. The map is then obscured by water-color blues, and in the top right, above a vivid burst of bright green tree leaves, flies a vivid blue-orange bird, somewhat resembling a passenger pigeon. The bird wings are open wide, chest blaring, red eye vivid, beak pointing up. Right: Against the backdrop of the textured bark of a tree, a light-skinned woman with buzzed hair on one side and shoulder length wavy hair on the other is standing gently smiling facing the camera directly.

To Remember Amid Dismemberment

By Petra Kuppers

In this interview, we are getting exciting glimpses into the development of a long-term creative environmental project—Orion’s Winter 2021 cover artist Marina ‘Heron’ Tsaplina’s Soils and Spirit, which will premiere in Continue reading →

On the left is a photo of a Black woman smiling at the camera. She has long braids and glasses and is standing in front of trees with green leaves. On the right is another Black woman also smiling at the camera. She is sitting on rocks by water, and is wearing a straw hat.

Way Finders and Wild Women

Tiya Miles & Lauret Savoy

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Philosophy is really homesickness, an urge to be at home everywhere. Where, then, are we going? Always to our home. —Novalis, Fragments   THE EXPLOSION WAS THE BEGINNING of the end Continue reading →

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Wild Swimming

By Samantha Hunt

NIGHTS ARE GETTING CHILLY in the Northeast and I am more often alone when I enter the water now, propelled there not by the heat but because, under water the border Continue reading →

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