Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. He is the author of the poetry collection ...

The spadix of the skunk cabbage, however, is thermogenic. It knows how to make its own heat, like a warmblooded animal.

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In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and ...

Join Orion magazine, Radiolab, and Lambda Literary to celebrate the launch of Orion’s spring 2025 issue, Queer Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity. This virtual event will feature two contributors ...

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“We need a communal shift in vision, a community of imaginers, of imaginal ecologists.” Though some suggest that the imaginal world is a bridge that connects ordinary and non-ordinary reality, I ...

It is with deep pride and great excitement that I write to share some truly wonderful news with you: Orion has officially hired our new Publisher, Neal Thompson. This moment marks both a culmination ...

APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, and we want to celebrate it with you! What follows is a list of, and a few lines from, twelve poems that we’ve published over the years and can’t stop thinking about.

“YOU’RE A FISH” is what the adults tell you each time you emerge, the last one out, footprints puddling beneath coltish legs. Beyond the fun factor, you savor being in water, the way it holds you, ...

FROM RETIRED ELEPHANTS and chicken-eating seagulls to toothy raccoons and intrepid wolves, Alison Hawthorne Deming’s new poetry anthology gathers today’s most beloved poets to celebrate the intricate, ...