Old Roads, New Stories: Environmental Clean-Up by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Salt Lake City: It made the newspaper here—this weed that’s swallowed the foothills and taken hold in places inaccessible to mountain goats, this weed that you can’t cut back...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Where the Rockies Were Born by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Take I-90 to St. Regis. Then the road to St. Ignatius. Then north from there, past the church, old and wooden—with a tractor out front, though there wouldn’t be now, and a man...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: In the Beginning was the Word by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Despite the political time we’re living in now, we can’t let Habit and Lack of Imagination win. Habit thinks, “Brown skin shouldn’t have a place here,” and Lack of Imagination...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: I’d Rather be a Hawk by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Like me, my friend Jason hates sestinas. Here’s what he wrote in a poem of his recently: I was at a party where someone read a sestina, and everyone jumped head- first into the...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Día de los Muertos by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Say you’re adrift like I am. Say it’s 81 miles from this spot to Next Services, plus or minus the sun in your eyes, and a cloud—no, that’s a contrail. A plane out front like a...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Extra Credit If You Read This at Work by Rob Carney
A Literary Series My wife Jen is telling a story about work. She teaches at Meadowlark Elementary (Go Larks!), and there’d been an issue with one of the boys there—he’s on the autism spectrum—so...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Poems as Rakes by Rob Carney
A Literary Series o there’s this joke I heard once—I forget where—that goes something like this: A Dean of Humanities dies, and of course goes straight to hell, and the devil walks up and shakes...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Down Here on the Cold, Cold Ground by Rob Carney
A Literary Series ith the New Year not so long ago, and in the spirit of resolutions, I plan to spend a minute each morning hating the guts of Vlad Sitnikov. He’s the project leader of this...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Traveling Through Time by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Driving West-Northwest on the Interstate There’s a road sign along I-70 near the Utah/Colorado border that says, “Travel Through Time.” I didn’t exit, though. I figured it wasn’t...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Hawk Medicine by Rob Carney
A Literary Series I-80 West of Laramie, May 5, 2019 Mostly I lose. And even when I win, I still lose. Betting horses. A couple years back, up in Evanston, for instance—there’s a horse track there:...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Truth > The News by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Click button above to hear Rob Carney read this edition of Old Roads, New Stories, or click here to download the column in .mp3 format. The End of March 2019 I saw my friend Nano....
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Summer Math Quiz by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Most of my summer jobs were jobs I got from teachers. I don’t mean they hired me, and I don’t mean jobs in education. I mean that they knew the ins-and-outs from doing it...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Why We Have Eagles by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Because it’s back-to-school time or about to be, and because myths were our first universities, and because the Toxin-in-Chief is trying to kill the Endangered Species Act: Click...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Why We Have Spiders by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Because October is now an avalanche of Halloween stuff, and because love has never been a simple story: Click button above to hear Rob Carney read this poem, or click here to...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Why There’s More to the Story by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Because the Supreme Court is deciding whether to treat LGBTQ citizens as lesser-than, and the Misjudgment-in-Chief wants the Court to end DACA, and Hans Christian Anderson could...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Why We Still Need Fairy Tales by Rob Carney
A Literary Series People were right to make fun of Mitt Romney. His pseudonym “Pierre Delecto” is ridiculous. So ridiculous, I figured, that it had to be an anagram, and I wasn’t wrong. Since the...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Why We Have Chickens by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Click button above to hear Rob Carney read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Why We Have Chickens Not because they’re sexy. But they sure do a good...
View ArticleDear America Anthology Publishing on Earth Day
We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, edited by Terrain.org editors Simmons Buntin, Elizabeth Dodd, and Derek...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Why We Have Bighorns by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Because Australia. Because California. Because Katrina. Because Maria. Because the Bahamas. Because Oklahoma: 2,000 earthquakes in the last five years, so what the hell? Click...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Why We Have Blue Jays by Rob Carney
A Literary Series When my brother and I were young, just kids, our parents took us to Jamaica. Bananas everywhere. On the cab ride from the airport: bananas, these whole plantations just outside...
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