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The Best of Wendell Berry
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 Continue reading
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Seven Questions for Camille Dungy, Orion’s New Poetry Editor
It brings us great pleasure that, beginning with the Autumn 2020 issue, Camille Dungy will take on the role as Orion’s poetry editor. After five years, former editor Aimee Nezhukumatathil has Continue reading
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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
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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
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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