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The Lord God Bird: Apocalyptic Prophecy & the Vanishing of Avifauna – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Season 8
As the existence of the famed ivory-billed woodpecker is increasingly left to the realm of myth, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder explores the wide…
5 years, 8 months ago
Sweet Breath from Another – Crystal Wilkinson
Season 8
Crystal Wilkinson is the author of The Birds of Opulence; Water Street; and Blackberries, Blackberries, and an Associate Professor of Englis…
5 years, 9 months ago
Courting the Wild Twin – Martin Shaw
Season 8
As part of our recent series of online conversations with our contributors, mythologist and storyteller Dr. Martin Shaw joined us to read fr…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Other House: Musings on the Diné Perspective of Time – Jake Skeets
Season 8
In this narrated essay, poet Jake Skeets explores apocalypse, time, and futurity from a Diné perspective. While colonial frames foretell a f…
5 years, 9 months ago
Beginning with the End – Roy Scranton
Season 8
In this narrated essay, Roy Scranton asks what we mean when we say “the world is ending.” Examining the nature of the narratives we tell our…
5 years, 9 months ago
And God Laughs – Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Season 8
Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of Darktown Follies, Red Summer, and Imperial Liquor. In this essay, Amaud explores the loneliness and fe…
5 years, 9 months ago
Pickled Limes – Kalyanee Mam
Season 8
During the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, Kalyanee Mam’s mother nourished and sustained her family with umami soups, chicken rice, and frie…
5 years, 9 months ago
Life in the Time of Cholera: Lessons on a Pandemic – George Prochnik
Season 8
As sirens fill the streets of London, George Prochnik recalls a revolutionary poet’s account of the 1832 cholera pandemic that unfolded in P…
5 years, 10 months ago
Sanctuaries of Silence
Season 8
Since lockdowns began, there has been an unprecedented reduction in human-created noise. Our movements have lessened, the circle of our exis…
5 years, 10 months ago
Robin Wall Kimmerer in Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Season 8
As part of our recent series of online offerings, the Emergence Magazine Book Club spent the month of April reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ce…
5 years, 10 months ago