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Ross Gay Answers the Orion Questionnaire
In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Orion contributing editor Ross Gay is a poet, essayist, professor, and devoted gardener. If you’ve Continue reading

To Remember Amid Dismemberment
In this interview, we are getting exciting glimpses into the development of a long-term creative environmental project—Orion’s Winter 2021 cover artist Marina ‘Heron’ Tsaplina’s Soils and Spirit, which will premiere in Continue reading

Way Finders and Wild Women
In which authors and historians Tiya Miles and Lauret Savoy discuss America’s trailblazing women, race, landscape, memory, the importance of getting girls outdoors, and Tiya’s new book Wild Girls. Lauret Savoy: Continue reading

Homesick
Philosophy is really homesickness, an urge to be at home everywhere. Where, then, are we going? Always to our home. —Novalis, Fragments THE EXPLOSION WAS THE BEGINNING of the end Continue reading

Wild Swimming
NIGHTS ARE GETTING CHILLY in the Northeast and I am more often alone when I enter the water now, propelled there not by the heat but because, under water the border Continue reading