Emergence Magazine Podcast
Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality. Our podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, fiction, multipart series, and more. We feature new podcast episodes weekly on Tuesdays.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 312
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Turn Towards the Dark – Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan is a clinical psychologist, poet, and author. In this essay she reluctantly steps into the realm of fear in order to reckon with a precarious world. In the context of the pandemic and pers…
00:41:09 |
Tue 18 May 2021
Ravens and Doves – Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates
In the face of present-day environmental catastrophe and social injustice, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates examine opposing narratives of survival in the story of Noah’s Ark, exemplified in the…
00:39:05 |
Tue 11 May 2021
Finding the Mother Tree – a conversation with Suzanne Simard
In this in-depth interview, Dr. Suzanne Simard—the renowned scientist who discovered the “wood-wide web”—speaks about mother trees, kin recognition, and how to heal our separation from the living wor…
01:04:56 |
Tue 04 May 2021
The Voices of Birds and the Language of Belonging – David G. Haskell
David G. Haskell is the author of “The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors” and “The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature.” In this narrated essay originally published in 2019, …
00:24:41 |
Tue 27 Apr 2021
Sanctuaries of Silence
In celebration of Earth Day, we are resharing the podcast adaptation of our award-winning virtual reality experience, Sanctuaries of Silence, an immersive listening journey into the Hoh Rainforest, o…
00:14:19 |
Tue 20 Apr 2021
QIKIQTAĠRUK: Almost an Island – Lauren Oakes
In this essay, conservation scientist Lauren Oakes listens to three generations of an Iñupiat family in Kotzebue, Alaska, discuss the transformations and losses in their community—located thirty mile…
00:27:36 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
Be Earth Now – Rainer Maria Rilke recited by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
In Rainer Maria Rilke’s seminal collection of poetry, The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, the great twentieth-century poet explores the nature of—and his relationship to—God through divinely "recei…
00:21:09 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
River at the Heart of the World – Arati Kumar-Rao
Arati Kumar-Rao ventures into a forested river gorge in the hidden land of Pemakö, which exists deep within the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist belief system. Intersected by the sacred waters of the Ya…
00:27:59 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
On Time and Water – a conversation with Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary filmmaker. In this interview, Andri discusses his book On Time and Water and our relationship to time in an age of ecological crisis. With I…
01:00:08 |
Tue 23 Mar 2021
The Stories I Haven’t Been Told – Jamie Figueroa
In this essay, Boricua author Jamie Figueroa brings her pen to the blank pages of her family’s history, exploring writing as a tool of revelation and healing in confronting a legacy of generational t…
00:49:05 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
Once I Took a Weeklong Walk in the Sahara – Anna Badkhen
Anna Badkhen is a writer and essayist who has written about a dozen wars on three continents and has spent most of her life in the Global South. Her books include Fisherman’s Blues: A West African Co…
00:43:24 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
Keeping the World in Being: Meditations on Longing – Fred Bahnson
In pursuit of a contemplative inner life amid a world in upheaval, Fred Bahnson looks to the early desert monks for guidance on how to direct our gaze and maintain an attentive heart. As he ponders t…
00:29:06 |
Tue 02 Mar 2021
Thirteen to One: New Stories for an Age of Disaster – Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Whenever an earthquake strikes Japan, the myth of the giant catfish Ōnamazu reminds people that the living world is full of complex meaning. In the face of repeated natural disasters, Marie Mutsuki M…
00:24:18 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
A Convergent Imagining – J. Drew Lanham
What if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rachel Carson had met? Imagining an exchange in the year 1964, as the civil rights and environmental movements were forging parallel and increasingly urgent pat…
00:24:00 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times – Alexis Wright
As the world falters, threatening native ecosystems and Indigenous lifeways, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal author Alexis Wright turns inward to the dwelling place of ancestral story. From here, she…
00:40:59 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
Unraveling the Stitches – Kalyanee Mam
Born in Battambang, Cambodia, during the Khmer Rouge regime, Kalyanee Mam immigrated to the United States in 1981 with her family. In this narrated essay, Kalyanee traces her father’s struggle for ag…
00:47:25 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
The Druid Renaissance – Lucy Jones
Even as the pandemic has isolated us from one another, it has also revealed new paths into deeper communion with and connection to the living world. From her home in the UK during lockdown, Lucy Jone…
00:45:18 |
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Illuminating Kirinyaga – Tristan McConnell
In this narrated essay, Tristan McConnell ventures into the shrinking mountain forests that surround Mount Kenya, home to medicinal plants, ancient trees, rivers, and rainfall. In the wake of the leg…
00:34:15 |
Tue 19 Jan 2021
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Invisibility of Nature – Michael McCarthy
Just as modern science is catching up to the ancient understanding of our deep emotional and physiological relationship to the living world, the twin forces of urbanization and technological advancem…
00:29:10 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. While the free market system we embrace in the …
00:47:04 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
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