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Listen: “Origin Stories”
Over two years ago, my mother died from lung cancer at sixty-one years old. While she never smoked, she did grow up downwind from Rocky Flats, a major nuclear weapons Continue reading
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Brenda Peterson Reads “Wolf Music”
Did you know that when wolves howl, they harmonize with one another? Or that if a human imitates a howl, nearby wolves will modulate their voices and chime in? Listen to Continue reading
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Melanie Rae Thon Reads “In the Exclusion Zone”
Memory of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, thirty years ago, is still resonant—but its aftermath in the Ukrainian countryside continues to shape the physical earth. Listen to author Melanie Rae Thon Continue reading
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Thor Hanson Reads “7 Seeds to Start Your Day”
From cotton to coffee, and wheat to strawberries, the seeds of plants are also, in some ways, the seeds of civilization. Listen to author Thor Hanson read his Enumeration from the Continue reading
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Poems from Cuba, in Spanish and English
Four poems, read in Spanish and English, from “Passport to Cuba,” a special section of the March/April 2015 issue of Orion. Read an excerpt from “Passport to Cuba,” here; subscribe to Continue reading