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Kelby Ouchley
For almost seventeen years I have written a weekly conservation-natural history program for public radio. My advertisement for that program states the goal is "to enhance your awareness, appreciation and enjoyment of the natural world." I hope that all of my writings meet those objectives plus one more: to stimulate folks to take action on behalf of the environment.
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Susan Cerulean
ROBERTA: Authors sometimes dream that a current event will dovetail with their book's launch and bring it to prominence. This is not the case for Susan Cerulean, the co-editor of Unspoiled: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast, a collection of thirty-six essays and poems contributed by writers including Connie May Fowler, Janisse Ray and many others. For Cerulean and her co-authors, the BP oil disaster on April 20 occurred just as...
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A "Flycatcher" Among Us -- New Literary Journal
The inaugural issue of "Flycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination," an online literary magazine that emerges from suburban Atlanta and strives to explore what it means or might mean to truly belong to our places, was published on January 11.
Though Flycatcher is not a regional publication—the first issue, for example, includes writing rooted in places as diverse as Honduras, India, the American West, and Appalachia—the Southeastern United States, and more specifically the Georgia piedmont, is its literary ground. But even so, Flycatcher is guided by the words of Atlanta’s great prophet, Martin Luther King, Jr., who wrote (while sitting in an Alabama jail cell, no less), “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
The first issue contains wonderful pieces from writers well-known here at the Southern Nature Project, such as Janisse Ray, John Lane, Thomas Rain Crowe, Susan Cerulean, and Erik Reece. Other highlights with distinctly Southern touches include an interview with Barbara Brown Taylor, a beautiful photo essay on the Altamaha River...
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To be fully human is to be engaged with our natural surroundings. The Southern Nature Project is founded on the conviction that writing, like the kinds gathered here, can help us lead more human, profound, and courageous lives, thereby conserving our southern environment for generations yet to come.
