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 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
Lighting your way for more than a century
Every Thursday night in the summer I turned twenty-four, I would get off work from my newspaper job between ten and eleven, climb into my soft top Jeep CJ-5, and drive east from Northern Virginia, sticky sweltering humidity churning in my wake as I crossed the Potomac River into DC, traversed Maryland, climbed the slope … Read more
After a near-deadly car accident, they vowed to start and end their canoe expeditions at the front door
A beloved family campground remains a time capsule for generations
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In remote Saudi Arabia, roughly one hundred twenty miles east of the Red Sea, stands Al Naslaa, one of the world’s strangest geologic curiosities. Or, is it actually two? (Perhaps more of a question for geologic philosophers, if such people exist.) Al Naslaa is a sandstone boulder, roughly thirty feet tall and another thirty feet … Read more
