Editor’s Choice: “Of Birds and Barley”
“Is humankind so intrinsically ugly that we seek deliverance by not only yearning after, but also actually imitating other creatures, such that the aping of swans by skilled dancers has become Continue reading
Author Archives: Nick Triolo
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Reflects on Five Years as Poetry Editor
“The land knows you, even when you are lost.” I’ve lost track of the times I’ve thought of this sentence from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass since I first became Orion’s poetry Continue reading
The View From a Desert Ridge
Long-time Orion contributor Kathleen Dean Moore wrote to Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time (Counterpoint Press; July 7, 2020), about topics of creosote-time, Continue reading
Crossing a Riven Country
IN THE SPRING OF 1919 the McGarrity’s rode out from their North Dakota homestead, where, back of the house, they left spaded into the prairie earth four graves, their children, born Continue reading
Together Apart
John T. Price (left); Michael P. Branch (right) Together Apart is an Orion web series of letters from isolation. Every week under lockdown, we eavesdrop on curious pairs of authors, Continue reading