Essays and Articles
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I particularly love the essay. It’s a form of literary collage, a marvelous way to take disparate pieces and mold them into a whole. Below are links to two essays in which I particularly enjoyed this process:
“Evolution Mobile.” Ecotone, Vol. 4, Nos. 1 and 2, 2008
“Mapping the Sacred Places.” Orion, Spring 1994
Here is a partial list of the essays and articles I’ve published:
“Vanishing Islands, Vanishing Homes.” Bartram’s Living Legacy, Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, ed., 2019. Second paperback edition. Originally published 2010. Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia
“An Imperfect Marriage: Thoughts on Staying Faithful to Home.” Updated and revised. Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Vol. 2: North Carolina. Casey Clabough and Michael Chitwood, eds. Texas Review Press, 2017. Originally published in North Carolina Literary Review, no. 20, 2011.
“Writing from the Rim.” Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means to Writers. Marianne Gingher, ed. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2015.
“North Carolina Triumph.” Unspoiled: Writers Speak for Florida’s Coast. Susan Cerulean, Janisse Ray, and James Wolpart, eds. Heart of the Earth Press, Talahassee, 2010.
“Oysters for All.” Orion, May/June 2009
“Evolution Mobile.” Ecotone, Vol. 4, Nos. 1 and 2, 2008 view here
“Ode to Jeff Cobb.” Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark. Paul Bogard, ed. University of Nevada Press, Reno, 2008.
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, contributor. Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, eds., Trinity University Press, 2006.
“The Year of the Comets: An Episode of Depression Teaches that We Know More about the Heavens than About the Cosmos Within.” Excerpt from book of the same name. Washington Post, February 8, 2006.
“The Taking of the Hatteras Light.” Southern Cultures, Fall 2001.
“Keeping the Coast Clear.” Mother Jones, September/October 2001.
“Hurricane.” The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South. John Lane and Gerald Thurmond, eds. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1999.
“Birds in the Hand: A Season of Banding Birds Evokes Some Second Thoughts.” Audubon, March-April 1996.
“Into the Dragon’s Mouth.” American Nature Writing 1994 (inaugural issue), John A. Murray, ed., Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. Originally published in Orion, Spring 1993.
“Mapping the Sacred Places.” Orion, Spring 1994 view here
“The Messy Science of Cetology.” New York Times Magazine, February 23, 1993.
“Could the Red Wolf Be A Mutt?” New York Times Magazine June 14, 1992
“Remodeling the Condor.” New York Times Magazine, November 17, 1991.
“The Polar Bear’s Dance: Thoughts on Wildness and Captivity.” Orion Nature Quarterly, Spring 1990.
“Nags Head Woods,” Orion Nature Quarterly, Autumn 1989.