Four Questions on Farsickness: Caroline Goodwin
“I remember lying on the frozen lake in the winter and watching the aurora borealis as the ice cracked and boomed…”
Read MoreMegan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking, awarded the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her writing has been cited as distinguished four times in Best American Essays and published in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. She edits Farsickness Journal and writes The France House. For more, visit meganharlan.com.
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“I remember lying on the frozen lake in the winter and watching the aurora borealis as the ice cracked and boomed…”
Read More“…the most extensive writing project I did based on place was a series of ten poems about a trip to Tanzania to climb Kilimanjaro and to safari in Ngororgoro crater…”
Read More“Paris, for me, after having lived there so many years, gives a sense of permanence and rootedness to my work. It feels like home, as do Napoli and Charleston…”
Read More“I’m interested in how we embrace or bump up against those aspects of our environment that challenge us. I’m embodying those ideas right now…”
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Read MoreFarsickness explores place through creative writing: An online journal of literary travel.
The word “farsickness” translates from fernweh (Ger.): a yearning for distant places.
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