23 Dec 2017

Spiral Orb Fourteen

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With work by Daniel Biegelson, Rosemarie Dombrowski, Gabrielle Grace Hogan, Rose Knapp, W.J. Lofton, John Martin, Michael J. Pagán,  Stephen Siperstein, Jonathan Skinner, Julia Wieting, Tyrone Williams, Gavin Yates + an entry poem composted from fragments of each of the pieces in the issue, Spiral Orb Fourteen is here.


6 Jun 2017

Some New Publications

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The new issue of Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts (Volume 2) includes my poem “home/practice.” 

Also, over at Stanford’s Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB), Erika Gavenus has written a nice feature on my collaboration with Maria Johnson called Bycatch – The Complexities of Shrimp Trawling in the Gulf of California: A collaboration between Maria Johnson and Eric Magrane.

4 May 2017

Spiral Orb Thirteen

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Spiral Orb Thirteen is here.

With work by:
Juana Adcock, Jamaica Baldwin, Rocío Carlos, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Hannah Kezema, Rajiv Mohabir, Óscar de Pablo, Lauren Russell, Danez Smith, Simon Seisho Tajiri, and Ellen Welcker;

Curated by:
Ari Banias, Chiwan Choi, Angel Dominguez, Maricela Guerrero, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Melanie Noel, Anjoli Roy, Eugenio Tisselli, Deborah Woodard, and Aiko Yamashiro;

as well as an entry poem composted from fragments of each of the pieces in the issue.

This is a special issue guest edited by Wendy Burk, “Collaborative Curation: Each Other.”

14 Dec 2016

Spiral Orb Twelve

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Spiral Orb Twelve

With work by Lauren Camp, Mark DuCharme, Meander Fiadhiglas, Ann Howells, Laboni Islam, Jolie Kaytes, Simon Perchik, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Monique Soria, Scott T. Starbuck, Laura-Gray Street, Vickie Vértiz, and Bill Wetzel, + an entry poem composted from fragments of each of the pieces in the issue, Spiral Orb Twelve is here.
12 Dec 2016

The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide Named a Southwest Book of the Year

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The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide has been named a Southwest Book of the Year. An article in the Arizona Daily Star announced the awards:

The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guidesouthwest_book_of_year

The Sonoran Desert also recently won a New Mexico-Arizona Book award from the New Mexico Book Co-op for best anthology of 2016.

Thanks to the panelists who selected the book for these awards, to UA Press, and to all the contributors and critters in the book!

 

 

31 Oct 2016

Recent Publications in Ecotone, The Louisville Review, and Terrain

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Thanks to the editors of Ecotone, The Louisville Review, and Terrain, where my essays and poems have recently appeared.

The Ecotone essay is titled “A Poem is its Own Animal: Poetic Encounters at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.” In it I reflect on my work as Poet in Residence at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The essay is in Ecotone’s featured “Poem in a Landscape” series in the most recent issue (no. 21).

“Ghost-Birds” is a collaborative poem I wrote with Wendy Burk, originally written while we were artists in residence at Big Cypress National Preserve in southern Florida.  This poem is included in the Fall 2016 40th anniversary issue of The Louisville Review.

Two poems and drawings from my Bycatch collaboration with Maria Johnson—“Shovelnose Guitarfish” and “Pacific Seahorse”—are up at Terrain.

 

21 Jul 2016

What Will Stand in ACME International Journal of Critical Geographies

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A new publication, including scores and sound files, is included in the latest issue of ACME International Journal of Critical Geographies. You can access it here at ACME or here at academia.edu.

Magrane, E., W. Burk, and E. Quin-Easter. 2016. What will stand: Songs from (F)light, a collaborative borderlands song cycle. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 15 (2): 482-510.

(F)light: a borderlands song cycle is a creative response to migration. We wrote and composed the cycle of nine songs in relation to two particular borders: those between Arizona, United States and Sonora, Mexico; and Maine, United States and New Brunswick, Canada. The songs address borders, geopolitics, mobility, emotion, and narrative. We briefly contextualize our collaboration on (F)light and then share three songs from the project, as scores and as sound files performed by Women in Harmony, a women’s chorus in Portland, Maine.

(The sound files can be accessed either by clicking on the icons on the top of the scores if viewing the pdf in Adobe, or through clicking on the supplementary files on the right side of the ACME console.)

29 May 2016

Bycatch poems and drawings in Zócalo and Coordinates Society Magazine

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Early poems and drawings from Bycatch appear in April’s Zócalo and at the new online Coordinates Society Magazine.

Shame-faced crab in Zócalo

Shame-faced crab in Zócalo

Bycatch is a co-produced art-science project that combines geohumanities, political ecology, poetics, art, and marine ecology to creatively respond to the shrimp trawling industry in the Gulf of California. “Bycatch” refers to everything captured that is not the target species, so in this case, everything that is not shrimp. Approximately 87% of the weight of catch by shrimp trawlers is made up of 225+ species of bycatch fish, invertebrates, and turtles. The majority of shrimp caught in the industry is sold in the U.S.

I am collaborating with marine biologist and illustrator Maria Johnson on this project as part of the Next-Gen 6&6 Art + Science initiative. The field work for this collaboration has included overnight trips aboard shrimp trawlers off of Bahía de Kino, Sonora.

See more on Bycatch on the project website.

3 Apr 2016

Essay Daily Interview & Two Reviews

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Some new press on The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide:

The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field GuideThe Literary Field Guide: A Q&A with Eric Magrane and Chris Cokinos in Essay Daily

Also, see reviews in Fine Books & Collections and Story Circle Book Reviews.

Upcoming events are here.

 

 

 

22 Jan 2016

rout/e ~ footpress poems

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A few of my poems (“the sky: to a bird” and “the sky: frames”) are published along a trail at Baxter Conservation Area in Ontario, Canada, thanks to Chris Turnbull and her footpress. Thrilled to be included in this cool project. It looks like one of them is inside a tree.

June 2016 update on how the poems are weathering Baxter.

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