Four Questions on Farsickness: Lenore Myka
“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…”
Read MoreMegan Harlan is an award-winning essayist, poet, and author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), awarded the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking, winner of the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her writing has been cited as distinguished in Best American Essays 2018, 2019, and 2021, published in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, American Poetry Review, and Colorado Review, and awarded the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize. She is the Editor of Farsickness Journal and writes The France House. For more, visit meganharlan.com.
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“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…”
Read MoreFarsickness Journal features “Inscription,” a place poem by Kathy Fagan.
Read More“In that place—as far from home as I could get without leaving the planet—I began to envision myself as a writer…”
Read More“I am from a West that has resonated with me: empty highways, scree slopes, prairie vistas, river bottoms, rainy seashores, Barry Lopez short stories, Elton Bennett prints…”
Read More“A day at the creek was sometimes strange—I would lose track of time and my play focused on witchcraft, survival and death, but I couldn’t wait to go back…”
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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