26 Jul Amazed to Be Awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship!
It's hard for me to believe that I'm included with 34 amazing scholars-writers like Jared Farmer, Gregg Mitman, Monica Martinez, and so many more. I'm still pinching myself! ...
Author: Lauret Savoy
26 Jun TRACE Wins ASLE Creative Writing Award
TRACE Wins Creative Writing Book Award from ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment If anyone has mastered the art of being in two places at the same time, please let me know! ASLE just honored me by giving TRACE its biennial Creative Writing...
23 Jun Punctuated Discontinuity – Canadian Rocky Mountains
The journeys that once-living organisms embark on toward the fossil record, few rarely complete. Decay or disintegration destroys more remains than not. And rocks exposed at Earth’s surface don’t chronicle all of the planet’s past. Tectonic upheavals, such as the forces that made the Rocky...
23 May Tracing a Contextual Past – Apostle Islands, Wisconsin
For author Louise Erdrich the painted islands west of Lake Superior in Lake of the Woods are book-islands to be read. Her grandfather was the last person in her family to speak Anishinaabemowin with any fluency. So she tried to acquire what she had not...
11 May A Gift from a Wood Thrush
A few weeks ago, White-Throated Sparrows called from the woods near the mouth of Glover Archbold Park in Washington, DC, joining resident cardinals and wrens. Now Wood Thrush songs ring through the forest. I'd never seen this reclusive bird so close before, but its song...
15 Apr Kenyon College & the Kenyon Review
Catching Up on April - My visit to Kenyon College and the Kenyon Review earlier this month was a true gift. I met amazing students, gave a reading/talk to a generous audience, and shared the bill (science writing symposium) with Andrea Wulf. Wonderful faculty and...
13 Jan Alabama Point & Counterpoint
Yesterday, President Obama designated Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, honoring those citizens who faced violence and repression (including the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963) in the then ultra-segregated city to win rights every citizen should be accorded. The Civil Rights Act of...
05 Dec A Gift from Rick Simonson & Ursula K. LeGuin
The last two autumn readings for Trace took me across country to the Pacific Northwest. My first stop was at the amazing Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, thanks to Rick Simonson, then an event to Powell's City of Books in Portland. It was a...
30 Oct 2016 American Book Award – Acceptance Words of Thanks
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Thank you, Justin Desmangles. I didn’t expect this. To be in the company of writers of such beautiful and powerful words is a gift; to be chosen and celebrated by the founders and board members of the Before Columbus Foundation on its 40th anniversary is a...
25 Aug A Centennial of Possibility – The National Park Service Turns 100
One lesson I learned as a small child was this: the American land did not hate. People did. These were the late 1960s, when riots ignited cities across the nation. These were years when journeys with my parents introduced me to national parklands. Yellowstone. Grand Teton....