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Heather Altfeld

Poet/Essayist/Editor/Teacher

Essays

Obituary for Dead Languages

 

Obituary for Dead Languages, published 2018 in Conjunctions Magazine, selected for Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit

 

 

A Scribe in the Double-House of Life, Conjunctions Magazine, 2019

 

A Scribe in the Double-House of Life, Conjunctions Magazine, 2019, selected as a Best Notable American Essay 2020

 

 

The Magical Substratum (excerpt)

 

Excerpt from The Magical Substratum, published 2019 in Conjunctions Magazine, republished in part on Lit Hub

 

 

With Their Feet in the Water, and Their Heads in the Fire

 

  

Discussion with editor Bradford Morrow (16:45) of Heather's essay, With Their Feet in the Water, and Their Heads in the Fire, published Conjuctions Magazine Fall 2023

  

 

 

Unearthing the Mammoth: Orion Magazine

 

 

Order the back issue of Orion Magazine of Nature, Culture, and Place here, with Heather Altfeld's essay (photography by Byron Wolfe):  Unearthing the Mammoth

 

 

 

Aeon Magazine, Sweetness and Strangeness:  On Meaning and Metaphor, with Rebecca Diggs

 

 

 

Essay, "Photography, Storytelling, and the Inhospitable World," dedicated to the work of John Berger.  In ZYZZYVA's Spring 2019 issue on art

 

 

Poetry Northwest, "The Poetics of Taxidermy"
Poetry Northwest, "Modernity Explains Unfortunate Events"
Superstition Review, "Unpacking the Library of Childhood: One Poet's Thoughts"
Superstition Review, "Assigning Solitude"
Claremont Courier, "The World Inside the Word" for Rosemary Adam
North American Review, "On the Feeble Attempt to Teach Beauty"
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