PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
The Orchard by Adele Crockett Robertson: forthcoming from Godine, 2022: “Afterword.”
Breaking Bread: Essays from New England… (Beacon Press, 2022): “The Transit of Memory.”
The Clearing: September 2021 – “The Home Path.”
Décor Maine: April, 2021 – “A Singular Home.”
NewYorker,com: May 16, 2020 – “The Riddle of Solitude in the Age of the Coronavirus.”
NewYorker.com: June 16, 2019 – “My Father’s Things, And My Own.”
NewYorker.com: April 3, 2019 – “A Social—and Personal—History of Silence.”
Aeon: January 21, 2019 – “Disturbing the Silence.”
Longreads: January 15, 2019 — “The Silence of Women.”
Zócalo Public Square: Nov. 19, 2015 – “The Invention of the Light Bulb Did Not Conquor….”
Christina Seely:Lux: February 2015 (Radius Books) – “Lux: The Mysteries of Light’s Abundance.”
Urban Lighting, Light Pollution, and Society: November 2014 (Routledge, UK) – “Out of the Dark.”
John Bisbee at the Shelburne Museum: January 2014 – catalogue essay, “New Blooms.”
DownEast: October 2013 – “Somewhere North of Me.”
The Boston Globe “Travel”: June 9, 2013 – “Above it all on Sicily.”
The Harvard Review: Winter 2012 – “Shadows.”
Maine Home and Design: April 2012 – “The Dream Life of Nails: A Profile of John Bisbee.”
Boston Sunday Globe “Books”: February 19, 2012 – “Travel and Reading.”
More: December 2011/January 2012 -“My Mother’s Voice.”
The Boston Sunday Globe “Books”: July 10, 2011 – “Illuminating Texts”
The Independent (London), May 12, 2011 – “Artificial Light.”
OnEarth Magazine, February 23, 2011 – “Star Light, Star Bright”
The Boston Globe, Ideas, August 1, 2010 – “Lights out: The incandescent bulb, an obituary.”
The Huffington Post. July 8, 2010 – “Light! Less Light! The Evolutions of Artificial Light.”
Bright Common Nails: The Work of John Bisbee: February 2008 – “Strange Familiars.”
Lumina: Spring 2007 – “The North Pack.”
Where The Mountain Stands Alone: August, 2006 – “Look to the Hills.”
The Boston Sunday Globe “Books”: July 23, 2006 – “A Reading Life – Solitude.”
Colby Magazine: March 2006 – “A Farm’s Many Lives.”
Accent: March 2005 – “Disappearance.”
On Earth: September 2004 – from “Wilderness.”
The Harvard Review: Spring 2004 – “Ghost Countries.”
The American Scholar: Fall 2002 – “Dreaming of Dunghills.”
CommonWealth: Fall 2001 – “Of the Farm.”
The Boston Sunday Globe “Books”: November 2000 – “My Back Pages – Winter Sea.”
The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine: April 4, 1999 – “A Time to Sow.”
The Georgia Review: Spring 1999 – “Twilight of the Apple Growers.”
The Boston Sunday Globe “Books”: February 21, 1999 – “My Back Pages.”
The Georgia Review: Winter 1998 – “The Wilderness North of the Merrimack.”
The Georgia Review: Winter 1997 – “Bread.”
The Georgia Review: Autumn 1997 – “Baldwins.”
The Georgia Review: Winter 1996 – “Afterwards.”
Orion: Summer 1996 – “The New Pruner.”
American Farmland: Spring 1996 – excerpt from Here and Nowhere Else.
A View from The Loft: Spring 1996 – “Writing from Memory.”
The Georgia Review: Autumn 1995 – “Influenza 1918.”
The Georgia Review: Spring 1994 – “This Deliberate Dream.”
The Gettysburg Review: Autumn 1993 – “From Here: A Selection.”
The Georgia Review: Spring 1993 – “From Here.”
The Ohio Review: Autumn 1992 – five prose pieces.
Salamander: Autumn 1992 – four prose pieces.
New England Review: Summer 1992 – seven prose pieces.
Fiction: Autumn 1990 – seven prose pieces.
RADIO ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES
for Living on Earth (National Public Radio/WBUR Boston)
July 16, 1999: “Merrimack River Changes”
March 19, 1999: “Another Casualty of the Global Economy – Apples?”
July 31, 1998: “Valuing Land”
May 1, 1998: “Dracut Water War”
October 10, 1997: “A Different Cider”
May 30, 1997: “The Pruner”
February 14, 1997: “Jane’s Place: The Old Mail Road”
November 15, 1996: “Farm in Fall – Autumn Reminiscences”
September 6, 1996: “Summer at the Farm Stand”
April 12, 1996: “Early Land”
January 5, 1996: “A Farm in Winter”
ANTHOLOGIZED WORKS
Brief Encounters (Norton, 2015): “Star Light, Star Bright.”
Creative Nonfiction: A Guide (Wadsworth, 2008): “Influenza 1918.”
One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin, 2007): “Influenza 1918.”
Shorts (Norton, 2005): “Salt Hay.”
Pushcart Prize XXVIII (Pushcart Press, 2003): “Afterwards.”
The Norton Book of Nature Writing (Norton, 2002): “Baldwins.”
The Georgia Review Essay Retrospective: The First Fifty Years (Georgia, 2002): “Afterwards.”
Sorrow’s Company (Beacon Press, 2001): “At Sea.”
Pushcart Prize XXV (Pushcart Press, 2000): “Twilight of the Apple Growers.”
The Ohio Review New and Selected 30th Anniversary Issue (Ohio Review, 2000): Five Selections.
The Practical Guide To Writing (Addison Wesley Longman, 2000): review of The Hidden Writer.
Encounters: Readings for Exploration and Argument (McGraw-Hill, 1999): “Influenza1918.”
The Beacon Best of 1999 (Beacon Press, 1999):“The Wilderness North of the Merrimack.”
The Quill Reader (Harcourt Brace, 1999): “Influenza 1918.”
Leap Years: Transitions in the Lives of Women (Beacon Press, 1999): “The Early Land.”
In Brief (Norton, 1999): “Bread.”
Best American Essays 1996 (Houghton Mifflin, 1996): “Influenza 1918.”
In Short (Norton, 1996): “Greenhouse.”
BOOK REVIEWS
Orion: Rain, May/June 2015.
Orion: Air, January/February 2013.
Orion: Hanna Colter, Spring 2005.
The Boston Sunday Globe: The Situation and the Story, November 4, 2001.
The Boston Sunday Globe: Island: Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod, February 18, 2001.
The Boston Sunday Globe: The Land Was Everything, May 14, 2000.
The Georgia Review: Family Trees, Autumn 1999.
The Harvard Review: The Hidden Writer, Spring 1997.
The Boston Sunday Globe: A Handmade Wilderness, January 28, 1996.
POETRY
Taos Review #4: 1991 – two poems.
Zone 3: Autumn 1991 – two poems.
Virginia Quarterly Review: Autumn 1990 – one poem
The Hudson Review: Autumn 1990 – three poems
The Hudson Review: Autumn 1988 – two poems
The Hudson Review: Winter 1987 – two poems
The Cumberland Poetry Review: Spring 1985 – two poems
The Ucross Foundation Poetry Anthology
Merrimack: A Poetry Anthology