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
Valemon The Bear: Myth in the Age of the Anthropocene – featuring Martin Shaw
In an audio adaptation of our multimedia experience “Valemon the Bear: Myth in the Age of the Anthropocene,” mythologist Martin Shaw takes us on a journey to the deepest parts of ourselves. Summoning…
00:15:17 |
Tue 02 Jan 2024
Be Earth Now – Rainer Maria Rilke recited by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
In our final podcast of the year, a special selection of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry offers nourishment for heart and spirit. Twenty-five years ago, Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher Joanna Macy c…
00:22:47 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
Sanctuary – Camille T. Dungy
Witnessing the cry of the Earth, in its myriad permutations, can evoke real responses of grief and deep love for the planet. As we begin to acknowledge the wounds we’ve inflicted upon our nonhuman ki…
00:05:21 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
And Peace Shall Return — Ben Okri
In this short story, Booker Prize–winning Nigerian author and poet Ben Okri envisions the tragedy and peace of a post-human world. Twenty thousand years into the future, an exploration of Earth uncov…
00:56:44 |
Tue 05 Dec 2023
An Ecological Technology – A Conversation with James Bridle
Interrogating where AI models originate from and who they serve, writer, artist, and technologist James Bridle questions our fundamental assumptions about intelligence in this expansive interview. Ac…
00:59:02 |
Tue 28 Nov 2023
Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System – Robin Wall Kimmerer
In one of our favorite stories, “Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System,” Potawatomi mother, scientist, and professor Robin Wall Kimmerer takes us through the nine-thousand-year existence of maize, r…
00:58:09 |
Tue 21 Nov 2023
When You Could Hear the Trees – Kerri ní Dochartaigh
In this narrated essay, Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s experiences of pregnancy and motherhood bring her into an emerging realization of her own mammalhood. When she encounters her animal self, deeply embedd…
00:35:58 |
Tue 14 Nov 2023
The Stories I Haven’t Been Told – Jamie Figueroa
How do our inheritances shape our lives? In this week’s narrated essay, Afro-Taína author Jamie Figueroa brings her pen to the erased and fragmented pages of her family’s history, exploring writing a…
00:50:42 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
Be Dammed – Laia Jufresa
This week, we share a short story by Mexican author Laia Jufresa, translated by Sophie Hughes, that imagines the chaos of a world ravaged and divided by climate change. In “Be Dammed,” thousands of c…
00:32:37 |
Tue 31 Oct 2023
Portholes – Anna Badkhen
What can we learn from imprints in the earth about the ancient presences that left them behind? Acclaimed author Anna Badkhen traces markers left in the earth from the near and distant past, from the…
00:31:32 |
Tue 24 Oct 2023
They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
This week, we’ve adapted the interactive multimedia feature “They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration” for our podcast. Written by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder, this story delves into changing …
00:49:55 |
Tue 17 Oct 2023
Ravens and Doves – Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates
In light of the intensifying climate crises we face today, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates examine the opposing narratives of survival embodied by two birds in perhaps the most abiding of all F…
00:40:53 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
The Place by the Sea – Masatsugu Ono
In this short story by Japanese author Masatsugu Ono, translated and narrated by Sam Malissa, a woman and her young son move to an abandoned seaside village along Japan’s eastern coast, where they’re…
00:50:01 |
Tue 03 Oct 2023
Look Closely, or You’ll Miss It – Natalie Rose Richardson
In this week’s essay, Natalie Rose Richardson begins to experience a quality of attention that birdwatching can cultivate. Learning from Chicago historian Sherry Williams, who has piloted programs ex…
00:35:25 |
Tue 26 Sep 2023
Antarctica the Woman – Stephanie Krzywonos
Visiting the Ross Ice Shelf across several seasons, Stephanie Kryzwonos interrogates the heroic narratives of male exploration and conquest—written almost entirely by white men—that gender the land t…
00:40:27 |
Tue 19 Sep 2023
A Whale in the Desert: Tracing Paths of Migration in Turkana – Tristan McConnell
In a world rapidly spiraling into climate turmoil, will we reorient to welcome migration not only as a right, but a necessary human adaptation? In this week’s essay, writer Tristan McConnell ventures…
00:53:37 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
Stepping into the Liminal – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
When we are both left with the fragments of a dying world and given glimpses of an emerging one; when there is so much beauty and destruction to be witnessed, how can we find our bearings? In this ta…
00:42:45 |
Tue 05 Sep 2023
Speaking Wind-Words – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
How do words shape our world? In this week’s narrated essay, writer Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder visits the wind-sculpted dunes of Nebraska’s Sandhills, considering the prophecies that collided across t…
01:18:02 |
Tue 29 Aug 2023
Animals in the Room: Why We Can and Should Listen to Other Species – Melanie Challenger
How might our human systems work differently if they were adapted to receive input from the nonhuman creatures they involve and impact? In this week’s narrated essay, writer and ethicist Melanie Chal…
00:40:42 |
Tue 22 Aug 2023
Ancestral Structures on the Trailing Edge – Lauret E. Savoy
Histories are enduring presences. No matter how deeply they are buried, they remain. In this week’s narrated essay, author Lauret E. Savoy meditates on the history of the Chesapeake region and the ve…
00:39:18 |
Tue 15 Aug 2023
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