One year ago this month, Sean and I visited The Lightning Field, Walter De Maria’s land art installation in western New Mexico. We didn’t see any lightning, but we did do some writing! (We also got lots of mosquito bites.) My long poem “Field Study” shares part of my experience at The Lightning Field through words, drawings, and visual poems. “Field Study” is featured this month over at A Dozen Nothing, a really cool online journal that shares work by one poet each month. You can read–or download and print!–my poem at their website, and if you’re on social media you can also follow A Dozen Nothing for more content: pictures, insights, Q & A, and some silliness. A Dozen Nothing is on Instagram at @adozennothingpoetry and on Facebook at @ADozenNothing.

Sean also did some writing at The Lightning Field, and his notes turned into an essay that will be published in The Iowa Review. The issue that includes his essay isn’t out quite yet, but you can subscribe to The Iowa Review here, if you’re interested.

My plan, which you’re welcome to follow, is to print out the .pdf of my “Field Study” and then tip it in to The Iowa Review near Sean’s essay, once we get a copy of the journal. These two pieces about land art should get to share space together, don’t you think?

Here’s a picture (above) not of The Lightning Field, since visitors aren’t allowed to take photographs, but of some land adjacent to the field. Click over to “Field Study” for more poems, drawings, and explorations of this land.