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
The Ecology of Perception – David Abram
In this interview, cultural ecologist and philosopher David Abram discusses the animism, power, and potency of the living world. In our current moment of ecological and societal instability—rich with…
00:49:05 |
Tue 28 Jul 2020
Ink — Sjón
We commissioned four authors to approach the theme of apocalypse through fiction, from the perspectives of past, present, and future. Our second installment, Ink, is a story by Sjón, an Icelandic poe…
00:39:11 |
Tue 21 Jul 2020
Thylacine — Lydia Millet
As part of our planned Apocalypse issue, we had commissioned four authors to approach this theme through fiction from the perspectives of past, present and future.
Our first installment in our fict…
00:24:16 |
Tue 14 Jul 2020
The Lord God Bird: Apocalyptic Prophecy & the Vanishing of Avifauna – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
As the existence of the famed ivory-billed woodpecker is increasingly left to the realm of myth, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder explores the widespread disappearance of birds in the narratives of apocalyp…
01:03:27 |
Tue 07 Jul 2020
Sweet Breath from Another – Crystal Wilkinson
Crystal Wilkinson is the author of The Birds of Opulence; Water Street; and Blackberries, Blackberries, and an Associate Professor of English in the Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of …
00:24:44 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Courting the Wild Twin – Martin Shaw
As part of our recent series of online conversations with our contributors, mythologist and storyteller Dr. Martin Shaw joined us to read from his new book, Courting the Wild Twin and talk about his …
00:55:51 |
Fri 26 Jun 2020
The Other House: Musings on the Diné Perspective of Time – Jake Skeets
In this narrated essay, poet Jake Skeets explores apocalypse, time, and futurity from a Diné perspective. While colonial frames foretell a final apocalypse that will arrive in linear time, Indigenous…
00:26:44 |
Tue 23 Jun 2020
Beginning with the End – Roy Scranton
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 ourselves about the future, he explores what revelation may be…
00:44:11 |
Tue 16 Jun 2020
And God Laughs – Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of Darktown Follies, Red Summer, and Imperial Liquor. In this essay, Amaud explores the loneliness and fear that arise in the wake of inexplicable tragedy where per…
00:26:12 |
Tue 09 Jun 2020
Pickled Limes – Kalyanee Mam
During the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, Kalyanee Mam’s mother nourished and sustained her family with umami soups, chicken rice, and fried noodles. Years later, as Kalyanee cooks for her husband a…
00:30:23 |
Tue 02 Jun 2020
Life in the Time of Cholera: Lessons on a Pandemic – George Prochnik
As sirens fill the streets of London, George Prochnik recalls a revolutionary poet’s account of the 1832 cholera pandemic that unfolded in Paris. While watching history repeat itself in devastating r…
00:56:02 |
Tue 26 May 2020
Sanctuaries of Silence
Since lockdowns began, there has been an unprecedented reduction in human-created noise. Our movements have lessened, the circle of our existence is closer, we are more still. As the din of human act…
00:14:50 |
Tue 19 May 2020
Robin Wall Kimmerer in Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
As part of our recent series of online offerings, the Emergence Magazine Book Club spent the month of April reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s celebrated, best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous…
01:02:30 |
Tue 12 May 2020
This Is Not a Rehearsal – Hala Alyan
Self-quarantined and isolated in her apartment in Brooklyn, Hala Alyan is more aware than ever of humanity’s interdependence—suddenly exposed as a raw, pulsing nerve. With all of us inescapably toget…
00:20:00 |
Tue 05 May 2020
I Am Not Your Peril – Lisa Lee Herrick
In the wake of COVID-19, Lisa Lee Herrick challenges the resurgence of dangerous historical frames of race and belonging.
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00:42:47 |
Fri 01 May 2020
In the Ground of Our Unknowing – David Abram
Facing the paradoxes and ambiguities enmeshed with the COVID-19 pandemic, David Abram finds beauty in the midst of shuddering terror. As we’re isolated in this uncertain time, he writes, we can turn …
00:27:02 |
Fri 24 Apr 2020
What Difference Does a Day Make? Earth Day at Fifty – Paul Elie
Paul Elie is the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Reinventing Bach and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. As part of our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day we invi…
00:56:34 |
Mon 20 Apr 2020
Among the Trees – Carl Phillips
In this extended meditation on the relationship between place and intimacy, the body and the word, Carl Phillips walks among trees to explore what can and cannot be known. Carl is the author of numer…
00:20:08 |
Tue 07 Apr 2020
The Poet and the Palm Tree – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
The poet W.S. Merwin spent the last four decades of his life on Maui, restoring a plot of abandoned land that would become one of the most diverse and expansive palm tree gardens in the world. In thi…
00:35:09 |
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Shaking the Viral Tree – a conversation with David Quammen
In this interview, science writer David Quammen, author of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, speaks about the root causes underlying the current pandemic and explores the ways…
00:38:11 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
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