WEBER—THE CONTEMPORARY WEST

 

AN INTERNATIONAL, PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL SPOTLIGHTING PERSONAL NARRATIVE, COMMENTARY, FICTION, NONFICTION, AND POETRY THAT SPEAKS TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST AND BEYOND.

 

       


CURRENT ISSUE

VOL. 39, NO. 1 

(FALL 2022)

 

CONTENTS

Conversation
David James with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Abraham Smith with Forrest Gander, Mark A. Stevenson with Kim Stanley Robinson, Electra Gamon Fielding and Kathryn Lindquist with Pilar Pobil

Poetry
Pilar Pobil, Flavian Mark Lupinetti, Andrew Leggett, John Porter, Madison Jones, Valerie A. Smith, Richard Robbins, Margaret Chula, Sophia Gauthier, Spencer Hamp

Essay
Shane Borrowman, Elizabeth Henry, Carol Moody

Fiction
Ryan Shoemaker, Doug Ramspeck, Sri Craven, Darrin Cozzens, Ron McFarland, Melody Graulich, Dave Barrett

Art  

Pilar Pobil

                                                     

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“Anthropologists say there are three things almost every human culture has had—some sort of rules about incest, a formality with regard to burying their dead, and poetry. From the beginning, poetry has been connected to shamanism, to healing, and vision. Through language, we are able to offer our world to others. It’s only very recently that human beings have been so dependent on rational language, as if logic were the only way to experience the world.”

—Forrest Gander


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COMMENTARY:

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Fall 2022

Two years ago, Mark Sundeen reviewed the history and results of Utah’s “Mighty Five” campaign to promote tourism in the five national parks in Utah—Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Arches—for Outside magazine. He wondered if the campaign had worked too well...     

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CONVERSATION:

ELECTRA GAMON FIELDING & KATHRYN LINDQUIST WITH PILAR POBIL

Fall 2022

I Was Born from the Sea with a Paintbrush in my Hand is a self-portrait depicting me in my youth. I love the Mediterranean Sea. My friends and I swam in it all the time, even in winter when we would go way out from shore in a boat and jump into the icy cold water, if only for a few seconds.  

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Phyllis Barber, author
Katharine Coles, University of Utah
Diana Joseph, Minnesota State University
Nancy Kline, author & translator
Delia Konzett, University of New Hampshire
Kathryn Lindquist, Weber State University
Fred Marchant, Suffolk University
Madonne Miner, Weber State University
Felicia Mitchell, Emory & Henry College
Julie Nichols, Utah Valley University
Tara Powell, University of South Carolina
Bill Ransom, Evergreen State College
Walter L. Reed, Emory University
Scott P. Sanders, University of New Mexico
Kerstin Schmidt, Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Daniel R. Schwarz, Cornell University
Andreas Ströhl, Goethe-Institut Washington, D.C.
James Thomas, author
Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner, author
Melora Wolff, Skidmore College

EDITOR

Michael Wutz / mwutz@weber.edu

MANAGING EDITOR

Kristin Jackson / kristinjackson@weber.edu

 


An international, peer-reviewed journal spotlighting

personal narrative, commentary, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry

that speaks to the environment and culture of the American West and beyond.