Print – Ecotone

•Mile High, Mile Deep

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•Notes and Recent Awards

The editors would like to congratulate the following writers: Best American essays 2021 notable special Issue The Garden Issue (vol. 16, no. 1) notable essay Kazim Ali Naming Home (vol.

Poetry – Issue 31

Anthropocene

Lisa Williams

We gave each thing its morning dew and went our little blade. / We put our feet on sand and glided ligaments and grains. . . .

Poetry – Issue 31

•The Dream You Aren’t Having

Katherine Indermaur

Up over the foothills a wolverine / is giving away his hide to the highest /
bidder. . . .

From the Editor – Issue 31

This fall I invited Adam Terando, a research ecologist with the U. S. Geological Survey, to visit with Ecotone’s editorial staff, to help us get a better collective sense of what the climate crisis means.

Out of Place – Issue 31

•Losing Everything

David Gessner

It is a writer’s worst nightmare. True, it is a human nightmare as well, but it resonates especially with those scribblers of words, keepers of journals, and hoarders of paper who call themselves writers.

Fiction – Issue 31

Phase Five

Stephanie Carpenter

She’d never had anxiety before, never had to pause at each stage of dressing to practice deep breathing, assuring herself that once she got past the door, she’d be okay. Usually that held true. But if Doug came to get Jax, if they left her alone in this strange place, would she be able to keep breathing?

Fiction – Issue 31

Long Division

Pritha Bhattacharyya

Let me rephrase: you are connected by a rope to your mother or your father and you stand on a cliff while they dangle off the edge. Forget the grit of the dirt that you dig your heels into. Forget the force that the Earth exerts upon you just as you exert upon it. Forget air resistance and center of mass. The principle rests only on Newton’s second law: F = ma. The two of you aren’t individual entities, but one system.