GUEST POST BY LAURA ESPÓSTO
The Collection and What Remains by Laura Espósto I. On our first morning on Grand Manan a bridge of Cirrostratus trail in from the south east. I ask Eshani if I can use her bedroom window to gauge whether the gauze sheet of clouds is above or below 25,000 […]
GUEST POST BY EMILIO CARRERO
Searching for Work Emilio Carrero The only security between me and Mexico was a metal detector machine manned by one guy. I’d made it down to Nogales with my friends to cross the border. I was surprised at how simple it was: I walked to the entry point, water […]
GUEST POST BY ESHANI SURYA
Under What’s Seen Eshani Surya The call comes early after we have hit open sea, after we can’t see Grand Manan any longer, or even the littler pieces of land that jut up from among the waves. By now the whale watch boat has taken us past […]
GUEST POST BY LEE ANNE GALLAWAY-MITCHELL
Refugium Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell July 21, 2018 “Refugia can be defined as habitats or environmental factors that, coupled with morphological, life history, and behavioral attributes of animals, reduce the impacts of disturbance (Sedell et al., 1990; Lancaster and Belyea, 1997).” […]
GUEST POST BY EMI NOGUCHI
Finding Here-ness in the Grey Zone Emi Noguchi When people on Grand Manan talk about the Grey Zone, they are typically referring to the waters claimed by both the United States and Canada near Machias Seal Island, a lonely rock of a place inhabited during breeding […]
GUEST POST BY SOPHIA TERAZAWA
from Cartographies of Insurrection (Letters at the Gate to Hell) Sophia Terazawa July 2, 2018 Dearest Sunflower, Last night we saw the gate to hell and rows of children along the entrance of America. I thought about a conversation two nights ago with friends in Tucson. We spoke of Asian American mothers […]
GRAND MANAN FIELD STUDIES LAUNCHES
Summer 2018 Field Studies Grand Manan launched on July 4th with arrival on the Grand Manan V of the three participating University of Arizona MFA students. They will be working with high school students from Grand Manan Community School and visiting the Bowdoin College Scientific Research Station on Kent Island. Their reports from the field […]
FIELD STUDIES SOUTHWEST LAUNCHES
Summer 2018 Field Studies Southwest has launched in Patagonia, Arizona under the leadership of Susan Briante and Paco Cantu. We’ll be working with Borderlands Earth Care Youth and look forward to hearing from this year’s MFA candidates digging in to that work: Emilio Carrero, Sophia Terazawa and Lee Anne Galloway-Mitchell. Stay tuned for their blog posts […]
Field Studies Southwest, guest post from Susan Briante
WRITING IN RELATION: THE SOUTHWEST FIELD STUDIES IN WRITING PROGRAM By Susan Briante In an article published in Esquire magazine in 1974 poet Muriel Rukeyser recounts her experiences as witness to the dawn of the Spanish Civil War. Towards the article’s conclusion she remembers a conversation she had on a ship fleeing Barcelona. A passenger […]
Field Studies Southwest, guest post from Abby Dockter
The Thirty-Thousand-Foot View When I interviewed Richard Collins, retired Southern Arizona rancher, he asked the first question: “What have you read?” Specifically, he wanted to know if I was a Sand County Almanac fan or a Monkey Wrench Gangmember, and where I fell on the Aldo-Leopold-to-Edward-Abbey scale of ideas about wilderness preservation. “I […]