A little deeper below the surface, there are fossils of Miocene-age camels, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, and countless ...

ON AMERICAN SYCAMORE TREES, buds are breaking. Under American sycamore trees, balls are breaking.

Its iconic Holm oaks ( Qurcus ilex) are considered an integral part of the ecosystem. They are particularly favored—planted, managed, and regularly pruned—because they bear a sweet acorn that provides ...

Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which ...

Ann Getsinger has been a working visual artist throughout her life. She grew up in Watertown, Connecticut, where her explorations of the nearby woods, fields, and next-door dairy farm established a ...

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Kelle Groom is an NEA Fellow and author of I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl, a Barnes & Noble Discover selection and New York Times Book Review Editor’s ...

Rose Thater Braan-Imai (Tuscarora) is director of the Native American Academy, where she leads creative projects and ceremonial dialogues reconciling Indigenous and ...

Dad gazed into the distance. The sun glinted off the pipelines, the fence, and the oil well. “Oil,” he said, “is the blood of ...

Painter Meredith Nemirov draws inspiration from the landscape of her southwestern Colorado home, particularly the aspen trees that grow throughout the state.