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JOHN ISAIAH PEPION IS A Plains Indian graphic artist from the Piikani Band of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He is best known for his ledger art, an art tradition that developed in ...
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EVAN SHARMA IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY artist working at the intersection of art and science. He finds these opposing fields provide a creative friction that enables art to bring people into the ...
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TO ROUND OUT FLOWER WEEK, we present you with a gallery of botanical art. The works below capture, preserve, impress, re-create, manipulate, and wonder at the influence of petals, stems, and ...
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VITAL IMPACTS, ALONG WITH MORE THAN one hundred of the world’s finest photographers who share a commitment to the environment, have made their prints available in this stunning winter collection. Treat ...
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Editor’s Note: Filmmaker Jessica Plumb spent 10 days aboard a steel-hulled schooner in June of 2022. From the deck, she and her family explored Western Greenland, witnessing the effects of climate ...
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In order to thank you all for your support throughout our 40th anniversary year and to help us express our gratitude on World Gratitude Day, we wanted to share this reading ...
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In February 2022, novelist, futurist, and Orion contributor Ken Liu joined video game designer Liz Fiacco to discuss Cloud Gardens as part of the CSI Skill Tree series, hosted by Joey Eschrich at Arizona State University’s ...
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For a lot of its history, the “road trip” has conjured predominantly white, straight, masculine images (see literature from Homer to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Jack Kerouac), but of course, that’s ...
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Life emerges from deep seas and new fires. ...
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THE SWAHILI PHRASE zeru zeru translates to “ghost people” and in Tanzania refers to one of every fourteen hundred citizens with albinism. The phrase is both descriptive and prophetic, as much ...
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Last night we witnessed something special. Orion partnered with Point Reyes Books to host a special, post-Election Day online conversation between two of our most influential writers and thinkers, Rebecca Solnit ...
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OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, for my storytelling initiative Climate Stories Project, I’ve had the privilege of listening to people from around the world share their personal stories about the climate ...
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Over two years ago, my mother died from lung cancer at sixty-one years old. While she never smoked, she did grow up downwind from Rocky Flats, a major nuclear weapons ...
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Camille Seaman was born in 1969 to a Native American (Shinnecock tribe) father and African American mother. Her photographs have been published in National Geographic, Italian Geo, German Geo, TIME, New ...
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Four years ago I lost hearing in one ear while backpacking in western Montana. Despite many visits to doctors, acupuncturists, and naturopaths, the cause of the loss was never fully determined. ...
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THERE IS A PHOTO of me just at the moment: a faded black newsboy hat shades my face, leaving only a half moon of visible chin, perched on two open ...
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Climate change raises existential questions—ones that, some argue, exist more comfortably in the realm of morality than science. So might the world’s religious traditions help us face the challenges of the ...
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Did you know that when wolves howl, they harmonize with one another? Or that if a human imitates a howl, nearby wolves will modulate their voices and chime in? Listen to ...
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Memory of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, thirty years ago, is still resonant—but its aftermath in the Ukrainian countryside continues to shape the physical earth. Listen to author Melanie Rae Thon ...
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From cotton to coffee, and wheat to strawberries, the seeds of plants are also, in some ways, the seeds of civilization. Listen to author Thor Hanson read his Enumeration from the ...
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Four poems, read in Spanish and English, from “Passport to Cuba,” a special section of the March/April 2015 issue of Orion. Read an excerpt from “Passport to Cuba,” here; subscribe to ...
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Author BK Loren reads her Coda from the January/February 2015 issue of Orion.
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Want more wildlife in your backyard? Consider raising some chickens. Author Sy Montgomery reads “Predators in the Barnyard,” published in the Lay of the Land department of the November/December 2014 issue ...
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Author Derek Sheffield reads from his Enumeration in the May/June & July/August 2014 issue about how to make your new house a home. Hint: get to know some of your wild ...
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Poets Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil read from their poetry correspondence, “Letters from Two Gardens,” tracing the shape of a year as experienced through each of their gardens.
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