Field Studies Writing

Tag: Grand Manan

  • 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 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 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 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…