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MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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ESSAYS & TRAVEL
- LESLIE'S GHOST
: The Archeology of A Small Town Massachusetts Life
A personal essay, submitted April 2005 to my favorite magazine, The Sun (declined); post-scripted and posted, 16 October 2005.
(Leslie's dead. It's fifteen below zero. Ghost is on the porch, shivering in the excitement of stalking the squirrels under the bird feeder. Still a young cat at six months, Ghost is the only thing at Leslie's old house that does not reek of decay or entropy. His being is still unfolding, a little white joy on four legs. He freezes, one leg in mid-air, when the squirrels look up, and then he advances, in inches. Dad and I watch him from the kitchen as he plots a massacre. )
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- Hawaii
: Spontaneous Awakenings and the Big Island
Published by WINGSPAN, All-Nippon Airways inflight Magazine, April, 2002.
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- the Globalization of Terror
: Organized Crime and the Peddlers of the Old, New Democracy
A Post-September 11 commentary on the U.S.-led "coalition against terror." (Written in New Delhi, India, in November 2001, while the US was desroying Afghanistan. )
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- BLIZZARD
: the Birth of the Wildcat Garden for Peace and Re-Education
this story was written in response to the attacks against the Wildcat Garden and farmstand after a sign was posted on Septmeber 13, 2001, that read LOVE THY ENEMY. (the story was submitted to several major magazines. One magazine editor -- a progressive magazine -- responded with supreme hostility; the second magazine's editor declined to publish, but sent back a very favorable and appreciative personal commentary on the story. )
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- the Most Fantastic & Intriguing Tale of the Chinese Pirate Lin Feng
and the Spanish Conquistador Juan de Salcedo
: Conquest and Genocide in the South China Sea
With the Chinese junks that sailed to Manila early in 1574 came a snow-white mare for the conquistador Juan Maldonado -- and the news of war on the continent of China...
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- World Cyclist Wheels Through Montague (MA): 'and shares his political views on cycling in (across) America.
(Sent to the Montague Reporter, November 2003, unpublished.)
- Zen and the Art of Peter Matthiessen:
(Written for Peacemaker Circle International, December 2003.) ( - see also: http://www.bearingwitnessjournal.com/story.htm?story=VKVXJI)
- A Potomac River Herstory
: Genocide and the Legacy of Pocahantas
Accepted for publication by a magazine whose higher editors later killed it. (Not quite the corporate Disney version of herstory. )
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- A Potomac River History
: Views of the Potomac River, Washington DC
Published by WINGSPAN magazine, All-Nippon Airways, May 2001. ( - see also: http://www.mcedit.com/search/?words=keith+snow)
- Unmasking Giovanni, K. 527
: Behind the Scenes with Placido Domingo & The Washington Opera Company
Published by WINGSPAN, September 2003. Story by keith harmon snow. (Photographs by keith harmon snow and Andrea Burns. View the opera images slideshows at: http://www.allthingspass.com/imagebank.html - see also: http://www.mcedit.com/search/?mode=article&url=/archive/Wingspan/2003/September/ETA.html)
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- iremembertelling
: a story of lobsterlove and sharkterror
a poem based on a true experience diving off the coast of New England in the presence of a great white.
- Wheels of Life: Hindoostan
: A Subcontinental Trek Into Consciousness
Written in reflection -- submitted to BLUE magazine, but unpublished -- perhaps even UNREAD; based on a mountain bicycle trek peddling across the subcontinent of India in 1991.
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- Oldoinyo Lengai
: Quest for the Sacred Mountain of the Maasai
this personal story about the political economy of tourism was part of a book keith presented to his friends Jimmie and Maggie, in Switzerland, at their wedding in 2002. It was illustrated with stunning photographs taken during their joint mountain bike journey in the heart of the Maasai lands near Oldoinyo Lengai, just south of Lake Natron, Tanzania.
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- Baja Mexico:
: Journey to Lands End...and Beyond.
An ecological and spiritual adventure and vision quest in the deserts and seas of Baja, Mexico. (Published December 1996, by Wingspan magazine, Tokyo Japan. )
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- Looking for Goethe
: From Frankfurt to Regensburg.
A geo-metaphysical exploration of the great poet and all the other things he was. (Published January 1999, Wingspan magazine, Tokyo, Japan. )
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- Buttercup Dream, and You
: A story about love lost.
Last night I dreamt of you. You lived on a broken farm with weed gardens and wild flowers. There were long blue hills and box canyons behind the farm. A desert was in front, sparse and dry, flaming red with shrubs and yellow with islands of buttercups....
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- Eight Poems About Earth & People
: How The Kudu Got It's Name, & more
- A Rare Talent Among the Nobodies
: Exploring the Short, Brutish Life -- and Unrequited Love -- of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris
Published May, 2004, by Wingspan magazine. (Story by keith harmon snow with Lunden Abelson. Photos by keith harmon snow. )
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- Exit the Matrix
: Enter the Abundance of Possibility
November 2004.
This essay -- written for a major publication -- was initially received with a lot of excitement by the editors, who planned to make it a central feature in the magazine, in the spring 2004. However, the editors soon began to think twice, and in the end they lost all interest in running it.
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- TALKIN' DOLPHINS
: Oahu and the Search for Higher Intelligence
Researched May 2005; published by ANA WINGSPAN Magazine, 01 January 2006.
(I can hear the dolphins coming, the blasts of air from their blowholes sounding like gunshots over the waves as they surface and breathe and dive. I'm alone in the ocean, no boat, no lifejacket, a half-mile offshore, bobbing in the waves, and I'm drifting over the undersea cave of a monster tiger shark. Inhaling, sinking down and spinning around like a wide-eyed seahorse suspended in midwater, I see the dolphins coming on me... )
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- THE TAO OF PANDA
: China: Pandas from Chengdu to Wolong
Researched in China March 2006; published by ANA Wingspan August 2006. ("It was in Wolong that a giant panda took a swipe at me...she did not miss. Her razor claws raked down the center of my chest. I am -- laughing -- alive to tell you about it. Mine was the luck of the dragon. Good fortune, long life." - see also: www.mcedit.com)
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