Featuring essays by Christopher Cokinos, Tenaya Darlington, and Brandon B. Schrand; fiction from Karen E. Bender and Elizabeth Crane; poetry from Bob Hicok and Tony Hoagland; maps from Rick Moody; an interview with Bill McKibben; and artwork from Anthony Goicolea (Winner of the 2007 BMW Photo Paris Award)
From the Editor
When the writer visits the Algodones Dunes to see the damage done by off-road vehicles and the men who drive them, she finds herself less certain of her footing.
Inspired by the jarring nature of human presence in the hauntingly bare landscapes of Greenland, one conservationist investigates how the written word--though presently enhancing the disconnect between man and nature--may save his floundering planet from eventual collapse.
An asthmatic and child of the American West examines this essential and elusive element.
The writer attends the annual neighborhood pig roast and examines why even the vegetarians can't stay away.
Nonfiction by Sarjane Woolf
A Peace Corps trainee explores the dense, untamed terrain of Ughele, a village in the Solomon Islands still rebounding from its bloody history as a battleground of World War II.
Nonfiction by Jacqueline Kolosov
Nonfiction by Emily Moore
There were two registered Democrats on her street that she knew of, and four Republicans. They would all walk into the voting booths, educated or uneducated, intelligent and dumb, and their votes would be worth the same.
And had I stopped right there and turned us around, I know things would be different now. But we kept walking just a bit farther, rounding another bend, and that's when we saw the house.
If asked, she would say that she had no thoughts, no mind left to know what allowed her to act in ways a mother should never—to prick and poke the flesh she bore.
Erma screamed again. Her unwanted guest darted into the living room, leaving a wake of smelly dark pellets. Erma was about to do another shriek when the doorbell rang.
Fiction by Katie Rose Guest
Fiction by Jonatha Ceely
Poetry by Bob Hicok
Poetry by Dan Albergotti
The Ecotone Interview with Bill McKibben
Eight drawings by Anthony Goicolea
