Description
Book SynopsisThe third installment of this best-selling anthology. A perfect companion for your hiking bag, travel pack and camp chair. This collection of stories, essays and poems includes work from more than thirty writers about wildlife, wilderness and the environment.
Selected and edited by:
Mara Panich (author of Blood is Not the Water) Poetry
Tyler Dunning (author of A Field Guide to Losing Your Friends) Non-fiction
Daniel J. Rice (author of The Unpeopled Season) Fiction
Includes the work of:
Chris La Tray, author of One-Sentence Journal
Irene Cooper author of Committal
Mark Gibbons, Montana Poet Laureate
Michael Garrigan, author of Robbing the Pillars and River, Amen
Todd Davis, author of Coffin Honey and Native Species
Scott McMillion, author of Mark of the Grizzly and editor of Montana Quarterly
Plus, work from Logan James Campbell, Valerie Innella Maiers, Daniel P. Hoffman, Dazar Frihet, and many more.
Trade ReviewPraise for Volume 1:“Leave room in your dry-bag, boat-box, rucksack, even fishing vest, for this rich collection of voices.”
— CHRIS DOMBROWSKI, author of Body of Water
Praise for Volume 2:
“This collection takes readers from Montana to Arizona, Maine to South America, and the Arctic to Australia...into the heart of the land and sea, into the heart of the human experiencing the land and sea... These poems, essays, and stories are wild to their core and oh so beautiful.“
- Sean Prentiss, author of Finding Abbey
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
FROM THE EDITORS
Poetry: Mara Panich—Mud
Fiction: Daniel J. Rice—How Wild Wolves and Classic Literature Saved My Life
Non-Fiction: Tyler Dunning—One Thousand Silent Apologies
POETRY
Selected as Best in Poetry: Irene Cooper—drift
Mark Gibbons—Cool Blue Dawn
Michael Garrigan—Slate Run
Todd Davis—Lost Blue
Dazar Frihet—A Place much Farther Back
Ana Maria Spagna—where sky blue beckons
AJ Donley—April in Covid
Brad Garber—What Animal I Would Be
Benjamin Green—My Place
Chelsea Jackson—Honeysuckle: A Ghazal
Gary W. Hawk—River Town
Donna Mendelson—A Family of Clark’s Nutcrackers
Gillian Kessler—Suspended Somewhere Animal
Mark Christopherson—The Small Hours
Heidi Sander—Carmanah
Steve Wilson—A Transfixion
Lynn Fast—Filling My Eyes
Mark Oswood—The Obligations of Being a Flicker
T-M Baird—A question, little lady: Do you know where you come from?
Yetta Rose Stein—In My Dreams, I Die in an Avalanche in the Bridgers
FICTION
Selected as Best in Fiction: Logan James Campbell—I’ll Just Wait Until It’s Quiet
Billie Hinton—We Are the Charm
JoeAnn Hart—Flying Home
William Burtch—Animal Crossings
Theresa Rice—The Summer I Loved Three Fish
NON-FICTION
Selected as Best in Non-Fiction: Daniel P. Hoffman—In Search of Flowing Waters: The Seasons of Alaska
Valerie Innella Maiers—Wyoming Four Ways
Amie Adams—In Which Spring Makes An Appearance Once Again
Chris Waltz—A Geologist, a Bear and a Priest Walk into a Bar
John Jacobson—Sprouting Leaves
Kelli Short Borges—The Void
Monica Devine—Many Things Were Visible When the Earth Was Thin
Scott McMillion—Hunting Among Wolves
