Reading Water with Becca Lawton
Becca LawtonA monthly newsletter by Rebecca Lawton (Becca), author, fluvial geologist, Grand Canyon river guide. Writing and living informed by reading the deep ways of water. New book: Boatwoman: A River Memoir (Bison, 2027).
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Poetic license, river guides, and writing the watershed
Celebrated poet and former river guide Moira Magneson's books of poetry include In the Eye of the Elephant (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2025) and the chapbook He Drank Because (Rattlesnake Press, 2008). She is also the author of the novella A Riv...
When a watershed is enough
What to do when the sun is in your sign? What resonates now, two years after ringing the bell of completion at the radiologist’s office?
Let the beauty you love be what you do.
— after poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
and dharma teacher...
Tell me what is true
Dearest ones,
Welcome new subscribers. Helloes to you and to readers who have been here a while. I’m happy to be connected. These days I’m in the years-long process of writing a book and facing the twin challenges of (1) making meaning of...
On the trail with fledglings
Dearest ones,
Today our valley is not on fire as we walk through wildlands, where battle scars surround us.
Fire sculpture where mourning doves perch and rest. Photo © 2026 Rebecca Lawton.
The cool of the morning reminds us that days are...
At home doing radical acts
Dear ones,
Greetings from my weekly field trip, which explored my wee bit o’ home turf. (“The most radical thing you can do,” said Gary Snyder, “is stay home.”1) Herein I write from the radical act of homing.
On breaks from writing, I fou...
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Rebecca Lawton (Becca), author, fluvial geologist, Grand Canyon river guide. Aspiring bodhisattva. Writing & living informed by reading the deep ways of water. Never AI. New book: Boatwoman: A River Memoir (Bison/U Nebraska, 2027).
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