Erik Reece | The Sun Magazine

Erik Reece

Erik Reece is the author of three collections of poetry and five books of nonfiction, including Clear Creek: Toward a Natural Philosophy, which was published in August. He lives in Kentucky and is the founder of Kentucky Writers and Artists for Reforestation, which has planted more than ten thousand trees.

— From September 2023
Poetry

The Art Of Living

My fly line unspools across the water like a long sentence / whose final punctuation is a grizzly hackle tied by a friend. / He clamped his fly vise to the branch of a fallen pine / right after we arrived by mule train at this Montana river.

September 2023
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

In The Presence Of Rock And Sky

We were standing, about ten of us, at the top of the Fanaråkbreen Glacier, bound together by a thick rope and a common desire not to disappear under thin ice. It was the height of summer in Norway, and down below, the annual glacial melt was well underway.

April 2010
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