Interview with Heather Swan, author of Where Honeybees Thrive

[ The Carl and Sandra Ellston Ars Poetica Literary Lecture Series will host writer, artist, and environmental researcher Dr. Heather Swan, May 10, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in Zabel Hall, Lewis Auditorium on the Eastern Oregon University campus in La Grande. Swan will read from her collection of non-fiction, Where the Bees Thrive: Stories from the […]

Fault Line: An Introduction to A Forest of Names

by Ian Boyden [Given the interest expressed by readers, we would like to make available here Ian Boyden’s introduction to A Forest of Names, in a slightly revised version of the introduction that appear in the 2017 issue of basalt. –Editor]   A Forest of Names In the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, 5,196 schoolchildren were killed […]

A Forest of Names (April) by Ian Boyden

[Throughout 2018, we have committed to publishing a selection of poems from each month of Ian Boyden’s manuscript “A Forest of Names.” Over the course of a year, Boyden translated the 5,196 names of schoolchildren crushed in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. He then began a collection of poems, each written on the day of each […]