Wild Ginger
The journey from ignorance to seeing is made by borrowing others’ eyes. A friend points out the litter of disassembled fir cones under a tree in one place, and I become Continue reading
Author Archives: Scott Walker
What Is Nature Poetry?
To celebrate National Poetry Month, Orion‘s Poetry Editor, Hannah Fries, is joined in a wide-ranging discussion of how the natural world informs verse by three writers who have published poems in Continue reading
America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part II
Part one of this article. WE NEED A COMPELLING VISION for a new future, a vision of a better country — America the Possible — that is still within our power Continue reading
False Idyll
OF ALL THE FEELINGS said to sweep over us in wild places — awe, peace, a sense of the divine — there are a few that rarely get mentioned. My last Continue reading
Manifest Destiny
THIS IS HOW I CAME to be standing inside a sodbuster’s hut at the edge of the Badlands, breathing 1876 air and hearing Spanish in my mind . . . Maybe Continue reading