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From War Machine to Supermarket Staple: A History of the Plastic …
May 14, 2024 · THE HISTORY OF the plastic carrier bag—the kind so often found caught on a tree branch and flagging in the wind—is a story of persuasion.. For over a century, the paper bag held dominion over how groceries were hauled home. By the 1980s, the plastics industry saw the grocery bag—a lucrative market, over $600 million at the time—as “the last stronghold” of the American supermarket ...
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - Orion Magazine
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. By Ginger Strand. January 1, 1970. THE YOUNG CHARACTERS IN Karen Russell’s debut collection of short stories inhabit a rich and strange fictional landscape. They navigate the perennial sea changes of growing up — shifting alliances, emerging sexuality, and a growing awareness of death — but ...
Ada Limón - - Orion Magazine
Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her work has been supported most recently by a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Artist Shaun Tan Makes the Familiar Strange - Orion Magazine
Oct 26, 2022 · For those who may be unaware, Shaun Tan is one of the most lauded contemporary illustrators in the world, a revered cult figure among fellow creators, and deservingly so. He grew up in West Australia amid “the forested southwest, the arid north, the vast inland desert, the endless beaches.”. He spins strange tales that rearrange habitual ...
The Elephant and The Tragopan - Orion Magazine
Nov 15, 2022 · Where rhododendron forests crown. The hills, and wander halfway down. In scarlet blossom, where each year. A dozen shy black bears appear, Where a cold river, filmed with ice, Sustains a minor paradise, An elephant and tragopan. Discussed their fellow creature, man. The tragopan last week had heard.
Meander Maps of the Mississippi River - Orion Magazine
July 16, 2024. IN 1941, Harold Fisk was hired by the Mississippi River Commission to embark on a years-long study of the river’s movements, a project which would entail the procurement of over sixteen thousand sediment core samples to reveal the presence of soil deposits over time. The map was published in 1944 as a series of fifteen panels ...
The Brutal Legacy of the Longleaf Pine - Orion Magazine
Sep 20, 2022 · WHEN BRITISH INVADERS established what is now Jamestown in 1607, they entered the northeastern edge of that once extensive longleaf pine forest, finding it so airy and open that “a man may gallop a horse amongst these woods any waie,” Captain John Smith claimed. The forest was “a plain wilderness,” he wrote, “as God first made it.” The colonists looked for proof of that idea—that ...
Online Writing Workshops - Orion Magazine
Wolfgang Hasselmann / Unsplash. Online Writing Workshops. This year, Orion will host several Online Environmental Writers’ Workshops in poetry and nonfiction. This unique opportunity lets you maintain social distance, while improving your writing skills from home. Connect with us for six to eight sessions with an experienced instructor and ...
Beautiful Impermanence: An Interview with Sculptor Patrick …
Jun 23, 2022 · Unlike most sculptors, Patrick Dougherty makes things that are meant not to last. And yet, a tremendous amount of work, hard physical work, careful planning, and artful imagination goes into every piece; each is a beautiful, collaborative rendition of an interaction between the artist, his material, and the natural and social environment.