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Black Earth, Wisconsin
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Two #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellows were among the faculty at the recent Elk Rivers Writers Workshop in Montana. Both accomplished scholar/writers, Taylor Brorby delivered a keynote address, and Cristina Eisenberg participated as a panelist. elkriverwriters.org/faculty/
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On Sunday I read the book my sister wrote wanting to see more about our childhood.
I loved those low-cost years.
An excerpt from 'Made You Look,'
by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp, in Asterales: A Journal of Arts and Letters
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Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow Erin Coughlin Hollowell, who was among the 2026 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award Fellowship recipients in Alaska. rasmuson.org/news/20-alaska-…
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Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts invites submissions for literary awards under the theme 'STANDING UP: WRITERS RESPOND TO VAST DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL CHANGE.' Submissions are due by November 15, 2026. @pamuschuk1
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"I thought I was a present father; my sons said otherwise. When my granddaughter arrived I made an offer."
- Liam Heneghan, professor at DePaul University in Chicago and #BlackEarthInstitute Scholar Advisor
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AI as a "new species" in our Natural World @Nancy_Pearl @humansandnature @CenterForBioDiv @AnthropicAI @AaronParnas @nprfreshair @KUOW @OrcaSOS @hilbertspaess @BernieSanders @OpenAI @Orion_Magazine @grist @NRDC_Action bpetersonauthor.substack.com…
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For those of us who live in Orca territory, let's be good neighbors @Voice_OT_Orcas @OrcaConservancy @BDMLROrcaAware @OrcaSOS
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i see myself reflected in clouds that are the eyes that didn’t look both ways before it crossed. the fawn that didn’t stop for drivers on their cell phones.
More from Kathleen Hellen's 'O, Whitman'
Read the full poem in our literary journal
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the primal forests hostage. the sky singed
w/ swirling particles.
the leaves of grass are leaving—O,
glint to which i’ve bent. blood pooling
on the asphalt.
From 'O, Whitman' by Kathleen Hellen
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Today, October 1st is the deadline for submissions to the next edition of our literary journal.
We publish About Place Journal as an expression of our founding mission to link spirituality, social justice, and care for the earth and its beings.
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Call for Submissions: For our next issue—The Power of Art in a Changing World—we seek poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submis…
ALT About Place Journal logo, Call for Submissions. Abstract colors, rounded shapes
#BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp has three new poems published in Issue #7 of Public School Poetry:
🖋️ Middle Distance
🖋️ Pears
🖋️ Permeable
"In these poems, you will learn that solitude is not empty," says Sehee S. Oh about Camp's work.
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ALT Old style school. Public School Poetry.
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Breaking News: In his UN speech, President Trump said he had a decision to make on Iran: make a deal or "annihilate" the nation. Follow live updates from the UN's General Assembly. nyti.ms/4yOCd9U
"Since I’ve spent my career exploring other species, they must be included in any conversation with AI. We must also look beyond us to imagine how AI will affect not only humans, but also our natural world."
-@BrendaSPeterson
#BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow
AI as a "new species" in our Natural World @Nancy_Pearl @humansandnature @CenterForBioDiv @AnthropicAI @AaronParnas @nprfreshair @KUOW @OrcaSOS @hilbertspaess @BernieSanders @OpenAI @Orion_Magazine @grist @NRDC_Action bpetersonauthor.substack.com…
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In Elizabeth Cranford Garcia's 'American Spring, v.1', the author asks "is there anything, America, that can stretch you beyond your elastic tolerance?"
Read the full text in the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejourn
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2 to issue forth suddenly as water, or as Executive Orders renaming bodies of water America. As pink blossoms from the redbuds, flaunting their promises, their promiscuity. Also, as uterine blood from a woman sent home from the ER...
American Spring, v.1
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ALT vertical US flag, shadow. Photo by Justin Smith on Unsplash
In this Feminism and Religion post, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Annie Finch shares her reflections on "the five ways Goddessness can help ALL of us—not only women—to navigate the death-throes of patriarchy we are currently enduring."
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2 to issue forth suddenly as water, or as Executive Orders renaming bodies of water America. As pink blossoms from the redbuds, flaunting their promises, their promiscuity. Also, as uterine blood from a woman sent home from the ER...
American Spring, v.1
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ALT vertical US flag, shadow. Photo by Justin Smith on Unsplash
Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Taylor Brorby who was recently named as a new assistant professor of English at Montana State University. Brorby will also be the inaugural Haynes Faculty Fellow. msuexponent.com/author-taylo…
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Ursula Le Guin's Tao Te Ching translation is timelier now. @nprfreshair @tricyclemag @ModernTaoism @WhatsThisTao @esglaude @TaoTeChing8 @TempestWilliams @janetranter1 @KUOW @ursulaleguin @HillNadell bpetersonauthor.substack.com…
#BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp will be among the 2026 Conference Faculty for the 'Desert Nights Rising Stars Conference' hosted by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at @ASU.
🗓️Oct 16–17
@piper_center
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ALT Abstract desert landscape.
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Every pastoral, including this one, risks sweeping clean history’s conscience. In the American vein, thick veil over the stygian face of forgetting every removal: people, animals, plants, water.
From 'In Which She Considers the Midwestern “Landscape”
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ALT corn field. Photo by Travis Essinger on Unsplash