Jon Cannon
I teach environmental law at the University of Virginia School of Law and live in the country, near trails. Publications include Environment in the Balance (Harvard 2015); “April in Keystone Heights, FL,” About Place Journal (Vol. 4, Issue III May 2017); and "Pope Francis, Laudato Si', and U.S. Environmentalism," William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review.
Reading List
Salamander, Slate Gray
Motionless in rotting shags buried until an instant ago in darkness under the sodden log I rolled aside like the stone from Jesus’s tomb. You are alive, of course — you were always alive, breathing lungless, sorting the world through …
Unstill Life, with Fox
Tandem axle semis blow up 29, headlights parting night imperiously as Moses the Red Sea. Yellow LEDs festoon the cabs but dark hides the eyes inside. I catch the ragged thrum propounded through the asphalt that connects us momentarily in …