ajtestbed AJ 33 • Recommended Reading Recommended Reading By Emily White Issue 33 You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World Ada Limón · Milkweed Editions · 2024 Edited by Ada Limón, the twenty-fourth poet laureate of the United States, this anthology showcases fifty never-before-published poems by contemporary award-winning poets. It presents odes to trees, reflections … Read more
AJ 18 • Resources Resources Issue 18 Beautiful Structure Senior contributing photographer Forest Woodward grew up not far from where he built his treehouse, in southern Appalachia. He was raised and homeschooled by alternative-minded parents who encouraged his freedom to explore from early on. At ten, he began formal study of photography and at twelve … Read more
AJ 22 • Resources Resources Issue 22 Never Swim Alone* At ten miles, the Strait of Gibraltar is the shortest of the Oceans Seven swims, though with more than three hundred ships passing through each day, it’s one of the most challenging. The rest are the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland, twenty-one miles; … Read more
Near the end of a really long day deep in the Needles District of Utah’s Canyonlands National Park, Sinuhe Xavier and I were heading out, heading north, leaving the Chesler Park region behind. We’d hiked the shadowed stone corridors of the Joint Trail, which isn’t a slot canyon but feels like one, where shoulders brush … Read more
AJ 06 • Recommended Reading Recommended Reading Surf travel, Balkan borderlands, Donner Party revisited, and fierce girls being themselves By Emily White Issue 06 Crossings Michael Kew · Spruce Coast Press · 2016 Outer Hebrides. Marshall Islands. Haida Gwaii. Tanzania. Vanuatu. Madagascar. Russia. Oregon-based writer Michael Kew heeds the siren song of hard-to-reach locales as … Read more
The perfect tree. It’s a ponderosa pine, an old-growth yellowbelly, one hundred fifty feet tall, one hundred fifty years in the making, with thick, jigsaw-puzzle bark that glows as if illuminated from within and smells faintly of vanilla. Where the green arboreal maze of Arizona’s Kaibab Plateau gives way to the red stony absence of … Read more
I sold my sea kayak yesterday morning. It was gorgeous: red, sleek, fast, light. Fiberglass, just under sixteen feet. It paddled like a dream, but despite my aspirations of getting lost in long expeditions in the Sea of Cortez as giant rays glided in silence beneath the bow, I’d owned it for seven years and … Read more
AJ 33 • Feature This IsSummer We asked some of our favorite photographers for their most evocative summery pics. Warning: Might lead to three months of adventure Nole Cossart enjoying his superblooming backyard in Central California Morgan Maassen: “Several years ago, as spring turned to summer, California experienced a superbloom like no other. Everything was … Read more
AJ 34 • Three Square Three Square Dirty Gourmet: uncomplicated, outdoor-friendly recipes from three friends By Mai-Yan Kwan, Emily Nielson & Aimee Trudeau Issue 34 Dirty Gourmet Photos by Dirty Gourmet Dirty Gourmet is a camp recipe partnership of three friends, Mai-Yan Kwan, Emily Nielson, and Aimee Trudeau. Their dishes are uncomplicated, outdoor-friendly versions of … Read more