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INTRODUCTION
 Wild
Apples: a journal of nature, art, and inquiry is a new twice-yearly arts and literary publication. Taking its name and inspiration from Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Wild Apples," the journal brings together the work of artists and writers who are connected by the common threads of care for the environment, engagement in social concerns, and commitment to the arts and the way they shape our world. "Artists are not like the ordered rows of trees in a commercial orchard," writes founding editor, Linda Hoffman, in her introduction to the first issue. "They have more in common with the wild apples growing on the borders of woodlands." Our journal seeks to find these gems in the landscape, let the different arts and visions intermingle, and produce new varieties and voices to sustain us. Let Wild Apples be a haven from cell phones and computers; a piece of reading that takes you into the woods and wilds. As the journal's guiding spirit writes: What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!  OUR FIRST ISSUE The inaugural spring 2008 issue of Wild Apples takes a look at seed banking in a native wildflower garden and social engagement in a prison classroom. It journeys across America to a gold mining town in Colorado, and out over a beloved New England vista to follow the footsteps and heartbeat of Henry David Thoreau to Mount Wachusett and back again. Poet Gary Metras and photographer Neal Menschel take us to the heart of fly fishing in three rivers, while Susan Edwards Richmond accompanies Linda Hoffman's series of Buddhist-influenced sculpture with her own meditations on river crossings. Poet Melissa Green and sculptor, Margaret Keelan, offer a sequence of myth-inspired revelation. Accompanied by the photographs of Joe Ofria, artist-interviewer Kathryn Liebowitz reveals how sculptor Joseph Wheelwright wrestles his inspiration from the Vermont woods, where he, like Henry David, has journeyed far into his own forested back yard.
And do join us for our
SECOND ISSUE LAUNCH PARTY – October 30, 2008
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