Spring 2008 

Table of Contents

Out of Place

• Homeless

  David Gessner

Fiction

• Insectuality

  Jason Ockert

• •You Are The One

  Scott D. Pomfret

• •The Body Autumnal

  Lisa Wells

• •For Love To Waken In His Face

  Haven Kimmel

Nonfiction

• Mother Nature, Her Eels

  Nick Neely

• The Olive Jar

  Kristen Keckler

• Dream Pond

  Michael Pollan

• Dark on the Inside

  Jessica Bane Robert

• •The Myopia of Scale

  Matt Roberts

• Ski Bums

  Eric Weinberger

• To See the Whole: A Future of Environmental Writing

  Lauret E. Savoy

Poetry

• The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi)

  Marvin Bell

• The Social Anxieties of Goldfish

  Patrick Carrington

• Back Where You Came From

  Camille T. Dungy

• Involuntary Beginnings

  Richard Jackson

• Journal Entry: Skocjan, Slovenia

  Richard Jackson

• The Opposite of Nostalgia

  Jeet Thayil

• •Geography

  Ryan Walsh

• On Marriage

  Katrina Vandenberg

• Places Real and Imagined

  Holly Simonsen

• Grief

  Lilace Mellin Guignard

• The Back Yard by Twilight

  Doug Van Gundy

• Lines Toward an Illuminated Manuscript

  Peter B. Hyland

• Dakota Civility

  Deborah Bogen

• •A Small Study of Faith Before Arising from My Bath to Teach World Literature

  Dan Stryk

• The Force of Compassion

  Keith Flynn

Over the Hills and Everywhere: Black Poets and the Natural World

• Over The Hills and Everywhere: Black Poets and the Natural World

• Watching Blackbirds Turn to Ghosts

  Rachel Eliza Griffiths

• Black-and-White Dusk at Limantour Beach

  Rachel Eliza Griffiths

• The Ritual of Season

  Remica Bingham

• Poem to My Child, If Ever You Shall Be

  Ross Gay

• Homeopathic

  Frank X Walker

• Migration

  Major Jackson

• In The Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge, Thinking of Rachel Carson

  Anthony Walton

• Carrion

  Anthony Walton

• Tallahatchie Lullabye, Baby

  Douglas Kearney

• Floodsong 2: Water Moccasin’s Spiritual

  Douglas Kearney

• Jaguaripe

  Myronn Hardy

• potters’ field

  Cynthia Parker-Ohene

• her table mountain

  Evie Shockley

Maps

• Your Local Mall

  Jessica Hagy

• Underground

  Denis Wood

Interview

• The Ecotone Interview with Michael Pollan

  Daniel J. Philippon & Peter Nichols

Art

• Seven Mixed Media Collages

  Krista Franklin