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
Thylacine – Lydia Millet
As rapid warming, pollution, habitat destruction, and insidious violence against other species speeds up the rate of extinction and edges ecosystems ever-closer to collapse, what voids are left in th…
00:25:31 |
Tue 08 Aug 2023
When the Earth Started to Sing – David G. Haskell
In this audio experience by biologist and acclaimed author David George Haskell, we are invited to be attentive to the songs and stories that thrum in the air around us. Hearing three billion years o…
00:41:58 |
Tue 01 Aug 2023
The Butchering – Jake Skeets
In this story, Diné poet and author Jake Skeets honors the food traditions that have sustained his people since time immemorial. As he prepares to butcher a sheep for Kinaałda, a Diné puberty ceremon…
00:31:02 |
Tue 27 Jun 2023
Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves – J. Drew Lanham
“Joy is our lives mattering, / Blackness respected.”
Juneteenth is a day to celebrate and defend freedom, equity, and belonging for Black Americans. In this stirring reading of his poem “Joy Is the J…
00:13:19 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram
In this week’s narrated essay, cultural ecologist and geophilosopher David Abram conjures the impossible movements of Alaskan salmon, sandhill cranes, and monarch butterflies on their annual migratio…
00:53:15 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
Hidden Bayou – Nathaniel Rich.
“Did Nieux Swamp resemble the original deltaic marsh, before it had been ruined by sea level rise, shipping canals, and pipelines? Or had the Foundation’s engineers created an alien landscape?”
This …
00:51:29 |
Tue 06 Jun 2023
Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives – Makshya Tolbert
As our physical and cultural landscapes transform around us, what memories remain held by water? What histories of pain and destruction, what hallowed moments are carried in its currents, taken into …
00:23:22 |
Tue 30 May 2023
Saguaro, Free of the Earth – Boyce Upholt
Imagine a world where the mountains and glaciers, trees and waterways and animals—everything comprising our living, breathing planet—had as much a right to exist, legally, as humans. In this narrated…
00:41:05 |
Tue 23 May 2023
In the Shifting Embrace of the Ganga – Arati Kumar-Rao
Visiting West Bengal during monsoon season, writer and photographer Arati Kumar-Rao bears witness to all that is formed and all that is destroyed in the swell and retreat of the Ganga. Struck by the …
00:55:40 |
Tue 16 May 2023
Dwelling on Earth – Jay Griffiths
Soil has been described as the skin of the living world—vital, reactive, fragile and thin. Like our own skin, soil contains and protects a living, interdependent ecosystem that breathes, digests, and…
00:38:02 |
Tue 09 May 2023
The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times – Alexis Wright
With native ecosystems and Indigenous lifeways perpetually under threat, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal author Alexis Wright considers how her enduring culture has responded to ongoing destruction. …
00:42:41 |
Tue 02 May 2023
Another Kind of Time – a conversation with Jenny Odell
How we experience time is, ultimately, how we experience our lives. In this conversation with Jenny Odell, artist and author of Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, she describes the soc…
01:03:28 |
Tue 25 Apr 2023
The Nightingale's Song – a conversation with Sam Lee
To mark the beginning of England’s nightingale season, we revisit our conversation with acclaimed folk singer, conservationist, and song collector Sam Lee, who steps into the forest each spring to si…
00:53:08 |
Tue 18 Apr 2023
A Woman Meets an Owl, a Rattlesnake, and a Hummingbird – Greg Sarris
In this week’s podcast, Tribal Chairman and award-winning author Greg Sarris introduces us to the Crow Sisters, who tell of a young woman drawn on a mysterious journey to the lost village of Kobe·cha…
00:35:56 |
Tue 11 Apr 2023
Reindeer at the End of the World – Bathsheba Demuth
In this narrated essay from our archive, ecological historian Bathsheba Demuth explores the allure of the apocalyptic arc—the ending of an “old” world and the promise of a new, “perfect” one. As she …
00:31:47 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
Monuments Upon the Tumultuous Earth – Boyce Upholt
For thousands of years, the southern Mississippi River has been shaping the land it traverses—and the structures humans have built along it. Over vast stretches of time, Indigenous societies were bui…
00:37:11 |
Tue 28 Mar 2023
Valemon The Bear: Myth in the Age of the Anthropocene – featuring Martin Shaw
This week’s episode is an audio adaptation of our multimedia experience “Valemon the Bear: Myth in the Age of the Anthropocene,” featuring mythologist Martin Shaw. Martin’s vivid telling summons the …
00:15:39 |
Tue 21 Mar 2023
What Survives – Lacy M. Johnson
In this narrated essay, author Lacy M. Johnson reflects on what can be rebuilt and what must be mourned as our environments shift, fracture, and sometimes disappear. Walking through a wetlands that w…
00:28:37 |
Tue 14 Mar 2023
When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet – Bayo Akomolafe
In this narrated essay from our archive, Nigerian writer Bayo Akomolafe deconstructs old stories of colorism and puts forward “monstrosity”—that which upends the familiar, that which challenges and r…
00:59:18 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
The Fallout: Voices from Ukraine – Anna Badkhen et al.
One year has passed since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The conflict has unleashed unspeakable violence, killing hundreds of thousands of people, displacing millions from their ho…
00:39:08 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
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