We are what we take into ourselves: penis, peach, and light, the music from living notes, hear and gone. The notes were here before us, the way calcium and phosphorus were here before us. We are bones ...

How art combats extinction ...

Jerry Martien is the author of Pieces in Place, a collection of poems, and Shell Game: A True Account of Beads and Money in North America. He teaches at Humboldt ...

A WOODCHUCK IS WOOLLY. Who knows what he thinks? He hibernates in his underground lair, a groundhog by any other name, his ...

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southern Illinois. His work appears in several galleries around North America, including the Fred Kline Gallery in Santa Fe. Please enable JavaScript in your browser ...

Herman E. Daly is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and a former economist at the World Bank. Please enable JavaScript in your browser ...

NEW YEAR, NEW BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS. Here are some recently published (or nearly published) books that caught our attention during those long winter evenings. “I’ve always had a soft spot for Winter,” ...

I DROVE DOWN WASHINGTON TURNPIKE, a straight sandy road cutting through the pine country of Wharton State Forest, the largest tract of wilderness in New Jersey. Surrounding me were trunks of slash ...

Do you knock on wood? Often! I did not grow up in a religious family, but my family passed on a lot of rituals for safety and luck. When you see a white horse, when you go through a yellow light, when ...