OK.
So again, thank you all for joining us this evening
and for allowing me to share just a bit more
now about Terrain.org, especially for those of you who
are new to our online magazine.
Terrain was founded in 1997 and first published in 1998.
I only have 5 or 6 more pages of this.
So we'll be-- I'll be pretty quick.
Originally, we were subtitled "A journal of the built
and natural environments."
But now we consider ourselves more a journal
of place and climate and justice.
Terrain.org publishes both literary works
of poetry, fiction, nonfiction as well as
interviews and artwork and editorials and reviews
and the Unsprawl sustainable community case
studies which include a few case studies from right
here in Tucson such as Civano and Armory Park del Sol.
And because we're online, we include interactive elements,
so audio, video, image galleries, interactive maps,
and more than that.
You guys can come on in.
There are some seats.
Don't be shy.
Terrain.org-- and I think one of the sort of amazing things
about Terrain.org is that we are free to access,
and we're advertisement free and always will be.
We are run by an all-volunteer team of editors which
includes Derek, our poetry editor,
and an international editorial board which includes Allison
here, as well as Alison Deming who we talked about earlier,
and these are also volunteers.
And we succeed, I think, not just
because of the quality of the work
we publish which Allison, Derek, and Julie will so ably
demonstrate here in just a minute,
but because of the community that we have created.
The community which as I look out in the audience now,
I see many of you who know of and are
a part of the community this evening,
and I thank you for that.
And now tonight, you're all a part
of the Terrain.org community, frankly, whether you want to be
or not.
So again, thank you for joining us.
So-- but let's now get to the real reason that we're here.
I will introduce readers before each shares
their outstanding work, and we'll begin with Julie.
Julie Swarstad Johnson is the author of the poetry collection
Pennsylvania Furnace and co-editor
of the anthology Beyond Earth's Edge:
The Poetry of Spaceflight.
She has served as poet in residence at Lowell Observatory
and at Gettysburg National Park, the latter of which
led to the chapbook Orchard Light.
She lives in Tucson and works as an archivist and librarian
at the Poetry Center.
Please join me in welcoming Julie up here.
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