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Oct 2016
Climate Change Interview
Leading into the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s series on Climate Change & Poetry, I was interviewed about climate change. Read the interview here.
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Aug 2016
Speedway & Swan Radio Show
I had the pleasure of co-hosting the Speedway & Swan Radio Show with the incomparable Brian Blanchfield last week. If you didn’t catch it on KXCI radio in Tucson, you can listen to it here online, archived at the Poetry Center.
Here’s the description of the show:
Poet and geographer Eric Magrane joins host Brian Blanchfield for an episode of poetry of place, past pastoral, off the map, crossing a threshold, or aground in the borderlands. Featuring poetry by C. S. Giscombe, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, John Pluecker, Alberto Blanco, Marianne Moore, David Schubert, Linda Hogan, Robert Smithson, Richie Hofmann, and Alberto Rios.
With musical selections by Lou Barlow, Xenia Rubinos, Paul Simon, Passion Pit, and more.
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SPEEDWAY & SWAN is a fortnightly, one-hour free-format radio program that presents contemporary poetry against a context of variously compatible and offbeat musical selections. Culling from the exceptional libraries of his partners, the University of Arizona Poetry Center and KXCI 91.3 Tucson Community Radio, creator and host Brian Blanchfield is joined in conversation each episode by a rotating guest co-host who brings to the hour a selection of poetry from his or her personal canon, which, along with the freshest and best from the “new shelves,” they read live.
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Jul 2016
What Will Stand in ACME International Journal of Critical Geographies
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.)
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May 2016
Poetry and Climate Change at Hotel Congress: Wednesday, July 20, 2016
At the Copper Room of Tucson’s Hotel Congress on Wednesday, July 20, 2016, 5:30pm to 7:00pm
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May 2016
Bycatch poems and drawings in Zócalo and Coordinates Society Magazine
Early poems and drawings from Bycatch appear in April’s Zócalo and at the new online Coordinates Society Magazine.
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.
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Apr 2016
Essay Daily Interview & Two Reviews
Some new press on The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide:
The 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.
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Mar 2016
A Celebration of the Poetry and Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
This Sunday, March 6 at the Desert Museum!
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Jan 2016
rout/e ~ footpress poems
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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Jan 2016
Spiral Orb Eleven
With work by Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Alyse Bensel, Melissa Buckheit, Jefferson Carter, Matthew Cooperman, Patrick Jones, Jeffrey Jullich, Stacy Kidd, Rico Moore, Ellen Noonan, Dan Raphael, Jessica Reed, Chris Turnbull, and an entry poem composted from fragments of each of the pieces in the issue, Spiral Orb Eleven is here.
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Dec 2015
The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide Available for Pre-Order
The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide is now available for pre-order here.
“It’s a book to walk with, a book to scribble in, and even a book to use as a cushion if the desert rock you tried 
to sit on was too sharp. It’s also a book to get away with. Let the rest of the country rant and rave and post and tweet and babble. The writers inside these pages aren’t listening. They are too busy getting out there and getting lost, naming plants and animals, teaching and learning, and doing the vital work of mapping their place.” —David Gessner, author of All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
“A book of delights for the mind and spirit, this is what a field guide ought to be. What better way to truly see a place than through the unblinking eyes of literature? What better way to truly love a place than through the embrace of ecology? Put them together, as Magrane and Cokinos have brilliantly done, and here is their irresistible invitation to the spectacular desert.” —Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature