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a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society

The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance cover image of a woman sitting near the edge of an orbuk (sinkhole). Volume IX, Issue I, About Place Journal, May 2026

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Issue editors: Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland

Assistant editors: Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak

Managing editor: Michael McDermott

Layout editor: Jesse Hughes

Web development: Creature Works

Cover artwork: Çıralı Obruğu by Isabelle Santiago

About Place Journal, Volume VIII, Issue IV, October 2025 cover: On Freedom (text on blue paper that is curling away to reveal a colorful oil painting of wings)
Careful/Care-full Collaboration – Volume VIII, Issue III – About Place Journal – May 2025 collage of torn paper pieces in blues and greens resemble four human figures embracing each other, on a light gray background
Shaping Destiny, Volume VIII, Issue II About Place Journal, October 2024 cover featuring pencil drawing of a bald eagle
Strange Wests, Volume VIII, Issue IV About Place Journal, June 2024 cover featuring the letters STRANGE WESTS filled with ephemera from a collage: magazine beauty photos, a ukulele, white yarn, on top of a light peach background
The More-Than-Human World, Volume VII, Issue IV, About Place Journal, October 2023 cover featuring a delicate, realistic drawing of a grayscale fox eyeing orange persimmons, isolated on a white background
About Place Journal, On Rivers cover featuring artwork by Stephanie Heit
About Place Journal, Center of Gravity cover featuring artwork by Natiq Jalil
About Place Journal, Navigations: A Place for Peace cover featuring artwork by Dustin Illetewahke Mater
Volume VI Issue IV When We Are Lost / How We Are Found cover
Geographies of Justice cover - Volume VI, Issue III, May 2021 - About Place Journal
Works of Resistance, Resilience cover – Volume VI, Issue II, About Place Journal, October 2020 – Edited by Jacqueline Johnson
Practices of Hope cover – Volume VI, Issue I, About Place Journal, May 2020 – Edited by Petra Kuppers and DJ Lee
About Place Journal - Infinite Country cover
Dignity as an Endangered Species in the 21st Century cover
Issue V, Volume II: Roots and Resistance, About Place Journal text overlay on photo of a protest
man in a hoodie holding a wild rabbit in front of a fiery landscape / Rewilding / Edited by Tammy Melody Gomez
Political Landscapes – About Place Journal
About Place Journal SOUTH cover image
Animals Among Us
Reimagine Everything Differently
The Future Imagined Differently
Primal Paradox
Earth, Spirit, Society
Enlightened Visions
Civil Rights 1963-2013
The Future of Water
Earth, Spirit, Society
Trees
Wall Street
Peaks & Valleys
Rust Belt Tales cover
I.I. A River Runs Through Us

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