Terrain.org
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Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is a twice-yearly online journal publishing editorials, poetry, essays, fiction, articles, reviews, an interview, the ARTerrain gallery, and the UnSprawl case study in each theme-based issue.
Terrain.org, ISSN 1932-9474, was founded in 1997 by Simmons Buntin and Todd Ziebarth. The first issue appeared in summer 1998 and featured work by R.T. Smith, David Rothenberg, Rick Cole, James Howard Kunstler, Sherry Saye, and others.
Contributors and interview subjects since then include Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Quammen, Lauret Savoy, Terry Tempest Williams, Joy Harjo, Sandra Steingraber, Scott Russell Sanders, Kathryn Miles, Brian Swann, and many others. Each issue is archived and a contributor index is also available.
Terrain.org appears to be the first completely online environmentally oriented journal, and continues to be one of the most comprehensive journals with original content exploring the nexus between the built and natural environments where it exists, and attempting to generate a discourse where that nexus does not exist.
In March 2009 Web del Sol called Terrain.org a "Top 50 Literary Magazine and Metazine." Other awards include Dzanc Books Best of the Web selections in 2008, 2009, and 2010; Top 100 Architectural Blogs listing by International Listings (though Terrain.org is not a blog, it does offer the Terrain.org Blog); Planetizen Top 50 Website; and Utne Reader Best of the Alternative Web.
Terrain.org has editors as well as an international editorial board that serves primarily in an advisory capacity.
The online journal also has a partnership with the journal / book series Terra Nova: Nature & Culture, published by MIT Press
. Terra Nova's editor David Rothenberg is a Terrain.org editorial board member and contributing editor. Terrain.org occasionally republishes work originally appearing in print editions of Terra Nova.
Terrain.org often conducts issue launches and readings, when possible in conjunction with sponsors. For example, Terrain.org's 24th issue, with the theme of "Borders & Bridges," was launched with a reading featuring David Rothenberg
, Christopher Cokinos, Pamela Uschuk, and Deborah Fries in September 2009. It was hosted by the University of Arizona Poetry Center
and co-sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity
.
Terrain.org, ISSN 1932-9474, was founded in 1997 by Simmons Buntin and Todd Ziebarth. The first issue appeared in summer 1998 and featured work by R.T. Smith, David Rothenberg, Rick Cole, James Howard Kunstler, Sherry Saye, and others.
Contributors and interview subjects since then include Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Quammen, Lauret Savoy, Terry Tempest Williams, Joy Harjo, Sandra Steingraber, Scott Russell Sanders, Kathryn Miles, Brian Swann, and many others. Each issue is archived and a contributor index is also available.
Terrain.org appears to be the first completely online environmentally oriented journal, and continues to be one of the most comprehensive journals with original content exploring the nexus between the built and natural environments where it exists, and attempting to generate a discourse where that nexus does not exist.
In March 2009 Web del Sol called Terrain.org a "Top 50 Literary Magazine and Metazine." Other awards include Dzanc Books Best of the Web selections in 2008, 2009, and 2010; Top 100 Architectural Blogs listing by International Listings (though Terrain.org is not a blog, it does offer the Terrain.org Blog); Planetizen Top 50 Website; and Utne Reader Best of the Alternative Web.
Terrain.org has editors as well as an international editorial board that serves primarily in an advisory capacity.
The online journal also has a partnership with the journal / book series Terra Nova: Nature & Culture, published by MIT Press
MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts .-History:...
. Terra Nova's editor David Rothenberg is a Terrain.org editorial board member and contributing editor. Terrain.org occasionally republishes work originally appearing in print editions of Terra Nova.
Terrain.org often conducts issue launches and readings, when possible in conjunction with sponsors. For example, Terrain.org's 24th issue, with the theme of "Borders & Bridges," was launched with a reading featuring David Rothenberg
David Rothenberg
David Rothenberg is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music...
, Christopher Cokinos, Pamela Uschuk, and Deborah Fries in September 2009. It was hosted by the University of Arizona Poetry Center
University of Arizona Poetry Center
The is among the nation’s finest and most extensive collections of contemporary poetry. It is the largest such collection which is "open shelf."-History of the Collection and the Center:...
and co-sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity
Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Arizona, is a nonprofit membership organization with approximately 220,000 members and online activists, known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action and scientific petitions...
.