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This Be the Place: Door in the Mountain 

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By Leath Tonino, Jean Valentine
| Essential American Poets
This Be the Place is a series of short essays in which poets explore the mysteries and meaning of a particular place. The winter of 2022-2023 was huge in Colorado’s Elk Mountains. Over the course of seven months, more than 300 inches of snow fell in Crested Butte, where I reside. Drifts reached to the sky, pulled down powder, reached higher.
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The best summers of my life were spent at the Grand Canyon Lodge. Now it’s gone. Original

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By Leath Tonino
| National Geographic Traveler Verified
I’m not usually one to get weepy over a hotel, let alone a patio and some rough-hewn wooden furniture. But when Arizona’s famous Grand Canyon Lodge and a number of smaller adjacent structures burned down on the night of July 12 in the Dragon Bravo Fire, a blaze that to date has consumed 11,344 acres and remains entirely uncontained, it left a hole in more than just the conifer forest of the North Rim. My heart, my friends’ hearts—there’s a hole in each of these now.
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Paying Attention

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By Nancy Holochwost, Stephen J. Knauth, Leath Tonino, Richard Chess Verified
| The Sun Magazine Verified
In Stephen Knauth’s “My Favorite Bird,” a “drab” little visitor to the author’s backyard prompts a thoughtful and empathetic contemplation of who this feathered creature is. The poem is a reminder that the world around us deserves our attention, an idea that is shared by the other poems in our April issue.
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