Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape

A panel discussion featuring contributors to Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape (2006), edited by National Book Award-winning Barry Lopez. The book features forty-five writers known for their intimate connection to particular places who, collectively, create a unique American dictionary. Panel moderator Debra Gwartney was managing editor for the book and is a member of the faculty at Portland State University and a former correspondent for Newsweek and The Oregonian. Bill McKibben is a former staff writer for the New Yorker and one of the nation's top environmental writers. Mary Swander is a professor of English at Iowa State and the author of ten books of poetry and nonfiction. Part of the Third Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.