Posted on 31 December 2018 by J.S. Graustein
Folded Field Notes is an interactive column that explores a new ecological topic each fortnight — part writing challenge, part citizen science project — led by alternating guides with assistance from editor & ecologist JS Graustein. Will you join us? TODAY’S TOPIC : Nocturnal…
Category: essay, FoldedFieldNotes, poemTags: active, amwriting, barbara flaherty, citizen science, comfort, dark, ecolinguistics, ecoliterature, ecosystem, field notes, folded word, FoldedFieldNotes, js graustein, moon, night, nocturnal, observation, open2you, response, writing prompt
Posted on 21 December 2018 by J.S. Graustein
The Blizzard and Syrian Wisdom On a mid-March Monday in 2003, my students were restless with rumors of storm, thrilled that school might close on days scheduled for standardized testing, events they dread more than final exams or flu shots. Robot calls came Tuesday…
Category: essay, SolsticeSeriesTags: Abu Ala Al-Ma’arri, ecolinguistics, essay, folded word, patricia dubrava, philosopher, poet, SolsticeSeries, storm, syria, translation, war
Posted on 19 December 2018 by J.S. Graustein
She made a mistake, and died from it, sinking into the spongy, bubbling sand on the Atlantic shore of Colonsay. Careless, injured or impaired, old or tired, she came inshore too far and lost the tide, hemmed in between dune and sandbank and outcropping…
Category: essay, WrittenWordWednesdayTags: atlantic, beached, colonsay, ecolinguistics, essay, fiona jones, folded word, grief, island, light, loss, travel, whale
Posted on 7 November 2018 by J.S. Graustein
I am an insect, carapaced, visor-faced and joyful. Smaller than other travellers, I fight the air’s viscosity and feel its every rip and eddy, its waves of coolness under trees and its warmth over sunlit fields and tarmac. You hear me before you see…
Category: essay, WrittenWordWednesdayTags: ecolinguistics, essay, fiona m jones, flight, folded word, insect, motion, motorcycle, speed, travel
Posted on 31 October 2018 by J.S. Graustein
If you had eyes, you would stare slowly, very slowly, upwards at the many shades of green and the single blue. Even without eyes, you sense the blue and reach towards it. You expand in the warmth and drink in air and light. These…
Category: essay, WrittenWordWednesdayTags: ancient, ecolinguistics, essay, fiona jones, folded word, life cycle, nature, sycamore, tree, wood, WrittenWordWednesday
Posted on 19 October 2018 by J.S. Graustein
Folded Field Notes : Join our community writing project exploring the ecological theme of “transition.”
Category: essay, FoldedFieldNotes, opportunitiesTags: amwriting, autumn, caroline fout, citizen science, cobwebs, ecolinguistics, ecoliterature, essay, field notes, folded word, FoldedFieldNotes, forest, observation, prose poem, response, spider, transition, web, woods, writing prompt