Field Studies Writing

Tag: Agnese Nelms Haury Program

  • GUEST POET BY KEVIN MOSBY

    GUEST POET BY KEVIN MOSBY

        LOBSTER TRAPPED by Kevin Mosby               Standing on the back deck of my temporary home, the Flagg House, overlooking the crescent-arced Flagg Cove, my visitor Carl Waters looks to the sunset sea ebbing to the shore of Stanley Beach. — This used to be mine, all of…

  • GUEST POST BY KIM BUSSING

    GUEST POST BY KIM BUSSING

                                             THESE WOMEN WHO ARE MADE OF WATER by Kim Bussing   Willa Cather wouldn’t have seen the fox. Their time on Grand Manan didn’t intersect —red foxes were brought to the island in the 1870s…

  • GUEST POST BY KATERINA IVANOV

    GUEST POST BY KATERINA IVANOV

       I AM NOT A BORDER / NO SOY UNA FRONTERA (an excerpt from the Novena series) by Katerina Ivanov   I. Why does it rain apocalyptic in the desert? We drive to Patagonia at the end of the world: Logan, Miranda, and I. The sky gets cazuela black, black as fat carpenter ants. The…

  • GUEST POST BY EMILIO CARRERO

    GUEST POST BY EMILIO CARRERO

        NOTES ON A CEMETERY by Emilio Carrero   It was on my morning run, a few days ago, that I saw a deer waiting to cross the road. The time was around 6 a.m., about an hour before high tide. I slowed up as soon as I saw it standing on the edge…

  • GUEST POST BY LAURA ESPÓSTO

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…