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15 Jun “Ancestral Structures on the Trailing Edge” Released in Emergence Magazine (Audio & Text)

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THE LAST BREATH before dawn. A moment of undefined edges slipping between dark and light, when it seems one might step through time and space merged. From the crest of Virginia’s Blue Ridge I look over what, at the close of night, appears to be a...

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22 Oct Second Edition of TRACE with a New Preface Just Released!

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Dear Friends, Hot off the press!  Counterpoint Press is just now releasing another edition of Trace with a new preface from me.   I'm deeply grateful that Trace takes a second breath with this new edition!            ...

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04 Jul 10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States (Fortune Magazine)

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Trace is featured in Rachel King's article "10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States" from July 4 in Fortune Magazine "It's often remarked that history is written by the winners.  It's also an unmistakable fact that most history lessons taught in schools...

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23 May An American Question

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From Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy Published April 2020, Trinity University Press   To my country: An old and perhaps unanswerable question has troubled me since childhood. Now it won’t let me rest. The Revolutionary War had entered its final years, still undecided, when J....

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01 Jan Letter to America

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Dear America, An old and perhaps unanswerable question has troubled me since my childhood. Now it won’t let me rest. The Revolutionary War had entered its final years, still undecided, when J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur asked, What then is the American, this new man? Most...

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26 Jun TRACE Wins ASLE Creative Writing Award

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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...

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23 Jun Punctuated Discontinuity – Canadian Rocky Mountains

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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...

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23 May Tracing a Contextual Past – Apostle Islands, Wisconsin

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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...

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05 Dec A Gift from Rick Simonson & Ursula K. LeGuin

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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...

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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...

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