In his brief excerpt of the new book Astonished by Beauty, Thomas Lowe Fleischner says both solitude and sangha have their own power.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/solitude-and-sangha/

#excerpt #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #essay #seaofcortez #beauty #joy #sangha #solitude #community

Roberto Deriu, a member of Sardinia's regional assembly and author of L’urbanistica non esiste (Urban Planning Doesn’t Exist), pens a guest editorial.

#guesteditorial #editorial #sardinia #italy #urbanplanning #urbandevelopment #overdevelopment

Natalie Rice's poem "Oxbow" is a lovely summer scene with the narrator's sister at the edge of the river as night nears.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/natalie-rice-2/

#poetry #poem #poet #summer #sister #sisters #river #oxbow #night #nightswimming #swimming #diving #blue

ARTerrain Gallery: The Hunt: An Image Before the Change, by The Krank, is an ephemeral landscape art installation on the edge of the Ionian Sea.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/arterrain/the-krank/

#landscapeart #greece #hunters #thekrank #landscape #change #greece #beach #coastline #art

Two lovely sonnets by Robert Marteau written in 1990, translated from the French by Malcolm Greenlee Farley, with audio.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/robert-marteau/

#poems #poet #poetry #translation #french #france #abbey #angels #sunlight #joy #history #religion

"Passage" is an excerpt from Lydia Paar's stunning book The Exit is the Entrance: Essays on Escape.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/passage/

#excerpt #nonfiction #essay #essays #creativenonfiction #newbook #oregon #coast #fear #love #mother #relationships #jobs #work #labor

Aneesh Agarwal's poem "banana slug, after rain" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/aneesh-agarwal/

#poetry #poet #poem #washington #youth #slug #bananaslug #bananaslugs #aftertherain

Renata Golden, "a grateful reader," reviews Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River, by Lisa G. Dill.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/reviews-reads/around-the-bend-floating-down-the-missouri-river/

#review #reviews #nonfiction #memoir #rivers #missouririver #newbook #book

Four gorgeous poems on the life and love of hunting and fishing by Adam Moore, with audio.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/adam-moore/

#poem #poems #poetry #poet #hunting #hunt #fishing #grandfather #love #place

"Notes on a School Shooting" by Cailín Frankland is Terrain.org's newest Letter to America poem (with audio), and sadly one far too relevant these days.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-frankland/

#poetry #poem #poet #lettertoamerica #schoolshootings #schools

Three strange and beautiful poems by Liam Strong: "black bear sighting", "don't speak the lord's name in vain where the fungi can hear us", and "faith in five different spellings".

https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/liam-strong/

#poems #poetry #poet #animals

In his long-running Old Roads, New Stories series, Rob Carney gifts us a new poem in his new psalm series: "Economy Psalm."

https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/economy-psalm/

#poem #poetry #poet #psalms #economy #attic #attics #metaphor #home #homes

"A Lit Window Is Someone Awake" is a beautiful story from Sharon Wahl's award-winning book Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/fiction/a-lit-window-is-someone-awake/

#fiction #story #shortstory #excerpt #scientists #sisters #death #student #teacher #fate

Fardokht Gorouhi's gorgeous poem "Elegy for a Cutbank on the Hoh" is next in the Washington State Poet Laureate's Words, Woods, and Wellness series.

#poem #poetry #poet #washington #olympicnationalpark #hohriver #fish #herons #rivers #loss #beauty

"Into the Mountains" is the prologue to the terrific new book by Joe Wilkins, Every Sky at Home: Essays on Landscape and Family.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/into-the-mountains/

#essay #nonfiction #excerpt #mountains #family #childhood #montana #oregon #iowa #camping #cabin #wilderness

Julie L. Moore's powerful Letter to America found poem "The Only Ones Left" recalls the May 31-June 1, 1921 Tulsa Massacre from the testimonies of last three survivors in court, 2021.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/letter-to-america-julie-l-moore/

#poetry #poem #lettertoamerica #tulsamassacre

Dolapo Demuren's "American Dream Sonnet Where Children Learn to Read" is a sonnet unlike any you've read before, with audio.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/dolapo-demuren/

#poem #poet #poetry #books #children #trees #pines #forest #reading

Check out the latest in Terrain.org in our Terrain.org This Week update on Substack:

terrainorg.substack.com/p/carework-a...

Turning Toward the Heartbreak: Katlin Curtice interviews Indigenous story-driven strategist and doula Madison Murphy Barney.

#interview #doula #story #ancestry #decomposition #growth #regrowth #kinship #connection #disconnection #community #care