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
“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
HIGHLIGHTS
FEATURED
COMMENTARY:
READING THE WEST
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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Madonne Miner, Weber State University
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Julie Nichols, Utah Valley University
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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
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Melora Wolff, Skidmore College
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