"Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate."
—John Muir

The Summer 2009 edition of Lines + Stars is entitled "Locus;" it features poetry of place and space, the ardent "in the world"-ness that Muir ponders in its absence. Our contributors observe and keenly investigate the physical and geographical environment -- and even in the mere act of writing, assert their place within it.

We're now soliciting pieces for our autumn issue, "Scavenger Hunt," for which we encourage poems and short prose about scavenging, hunting, or both.

—RACHEL ADAMS, EDITOR // LINES+STARS