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The Edge in Print

Spring 2018, Learning Edition

This is Not a Text by Watt Childress
the path next taken by Lotte Greaver
Hell-Mouth High by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald
Be Sure To Show Your Work by Gambele Kerr
Learning to Swim by LaNicia Williams
Time Like Bread by Winter Krane
Teachings In Trauma by Keri Haken
Once A Nursery Rhyme by John Marshall
Six Eras by Sam Steidel
Minus Tide by Rob Gourley
Education is Communication by Matthew Ruona
Seekers on the Range by Watt Childress
Following Senior Swim by Tricia Gates Brown
Watching Futbol at the Auto Repair Shop by Tricia Gates Brown


Spring/Summer 2017, Nordic Edition

The Latitudes of Formidable Civility by Watt Childress
Joiks by Israel Nebeker
what love’s got to do with it, review of Any Partanen’s The Nordic Theory of Everything by Lotte Greaver
legacy by Katja Biesanz
How Can We Be More Like Finns? by Victoria Pitkanen Stoppiello
Icelandic Sojourn by Judson Moore
Not Angels But Angles, Anglo-Saxon Studies and the Specter of White Supremacy by Margaret Hammond-MacDonald
The Day After the Election and The Day After the Inauguration by Robert Michael Pyle
Warm Norwegian Wood by Vinny Ferrau
Drinking From The Stream of Time by Gwendolyn Endicott
Swedish Spirit by Deborah Boone
The Night is Young and the Music’s High by Tracy Abel
Saft by Nicole Poole
In Defense of hygge by Lotte Greaver
Democracy in Concert: the northern tour by Watt Childress


Fall/Winter 2016, Death Edition

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What Remains
by Watt Childress
Greeting South Wind: New Lessons From An Ancient Traveler by D.E. Deur
Fall Provender by Professor Peter Lindsey
Autumn Leaves & Slumber by Catherine M. Gardner
If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them by Evie Alburas
The Genocide of the American Indian, and Their Refusal to Die by Stevie Stephens Burden
Under Fir and Sitka Spruce, A Homecoming by David Campiche
Again by Tricia Gates Brown
Dangerous Angels by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald
Midwifing Death by Lane deMoll
Alchemy by Alan Greiner
Baby Gramps and the Geechee Goo by Watt Childress
Stumbling Stones by Lila Danielle


Spring/Summer 2016, Home Edition

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Where We Live by Watt Childress
Home Stream by Professor Peter Lindsey
Home Team Baseball Dream by Brent Peterson
Salmon Curry Features Local Bounty by Jeff Wong
A Village Called Home by Nancy McCarthy
Amy Danger Waved Me Home by Mary Lou McAuley
Green Infrastructure Is Our Coastal Life Support by Katie Voelke
The Business of Giving by Eeva Lantela
Argentine Asado on the Nehalem River Ranch by Jared Gardner
Home by Nick Fish
Home/Less by Gambele Kerr
Susie by Mary Lou McAuley
Other Ways of Knowing by Carol Vanderford
Bringing Birth Home by Jennifer Childress
Soul-Searching With Civic Boosters by Matt Love & Jack Harris
Let’s Remodel The Coastal Housing Market by Watt Childress


Autumn 2015, Harvest Edition

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Edging Towards Community Intelligence by Watt Childress
A View From The First People by Roberta Basch
Farmers Seed Our Freedom and Security by Teresa Retzlaff
Big Seeds by Trav Williams
Back To The Homestead by Ginger Edwards
The Art of Organic Goat Cheese by Jennifer Childress
Life in the Upper Left Edge by Lianne Thompson
The Seeds of the Stormy Weather Arts Festival by Frank Milan
Legacy of a Playful Local Resistance by Watt Childress
Cover Crops by Travis Champ
For the Love of Collard Greens by LaNicia Williams
It’s All About The Salmon by Bob Goldberg


Spring 2015, The Jesus Edition

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Epistle to the People by Watt Childress
Encounters with the Jewish Jesus by Margaret Hammett-McDonald
What Jesus Smells Like by Vincent Ferrau
Jesus As A Young Muslim’s Spiritual Example by Aamir Malik
Jesus by Erin Hofseth
Hollywood Jesus by Rick Bonn
Forgiveness and Light by Lorraine Ortiz
Myths & Misunderstandings by Tricia Gates Brown
Return to the scene of our baptism by Watt Childress


Fall Equinox Edition 2014

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Meeting Billy Hults
by Matt Love
Artists and Trees by Watt Childress
Psyche Combs the Clearcut for Lost Souls by Watt Childress
She Who Draws Us In by Professor Lindsey
Some Kind of Crazy Heroism by Victoria Stoppiello
Ask Uncle Mike by Michael Burgess
I Am A Logger’s Daughter by Stevie Stephens Burden
Portland Pays An Old Debt of Gratitude by Watt Childress with Billy Hults
Women of the Wakonda Auga by Nancy Slavin
Kesey’s Coastal Trip: A Field Guide to the Addled Earth by Douglas Deur

More Gleanings

Memoir

February 13, 2026 By Steven Mayer Leave a Comment

End of the Street

August 4, 2025 By Steven Mayer 2 Comments

Here Try Some of This Ointment

April 17, 2024 By Watt Childress 4 Comments

We are the Luminaries

August 8, 2023 By Watt Childress 2 Comments

Open Letter for Creation’s Caregivers

June 19, 2023 By Watt Childress 5 Comments

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  • K H
    September 24, 2025 at 8:09 am
    on The Genocide of the American Indian, and Their Refusal to Die
    This response is far from timely, I know. But in honor of the ancestors I thank you for helping us
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    September 22, 2025 at 12:35 am
    on Three Poems and a Mountain
    Logan, on my annual summer browsing at Jupitor's I read "Freewriting In A Parked Car" and instantly purchased your book.
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