Editor’s Note by Martha Nichols
I bristle at the notion that creative people feel the deepest connections to nature.
Nature
My Inner Nature
Apr 15, 2013
A Poet in the Biosphere
Apr 15, 2013
Theme Essay by Kathryn Winograd
Last night I slept beneath the wings of Noctuidae.
The Petrel
Apr 15, 2013
Theme Essay by Douglas Canter
This visit to Great Duck Island brings me back, reconnecting me to something I’ve lost.
Green Among the Bones
Apr 11, 2013
Theme Essay by Marc Schiffman
The land seemed tortured, as if the vegetation had been slashed and burned.
Glistening Scar
Feb 04, 2013
TW Prizewinning Creative Nonfiction by John Gredler
Here in this place of house upon house, on this asphalt path hemmed by parkway and train tracks, a beauty as enchanted as I have ever seen.
Old Bones, New Flowers in the Judiths
Jun 25, 2012
Essay by Lorraine Berry
The sky was aster blue, and the burnt, bare trees looked like punji sticks shooting up from the crest of the ridge.
The Outdoors Is Not in My Nature
Jun 15, 2012
TW Column by Emily Toth
Women writers have used 'Nature' and 'local color' in an extraordinarily clever way: as a mask for universal social criticism.
The Crusade of the Avian Warrior
Apr 11, 2012
TW Column by Steven Lewis
How many insults must a wingless mortal absorb while some assault bird keeps attack-tack-tackin’ windows around his house?
Winter's Light
Dec 30, 2011
Image Essay by Cynthia Staples
As much as I complain about the cold, I love winter’s light coming through the windows each morning.
A Nature Writer Lets the Outside In
Sep 05, 2011
TW Column by Steven Lewis
Early in March, I can smell the bears turning in their caves.
