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
My Wild-Like Refuge – J. Drew Lanham
How do we root ourselves in times of isolation and disorientation? As birder and writer J. Drew Lanham encounters his backyard during the pandemic lockdown, he designates it as a newly sanctioned “wi…
00:19:31 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
My Name Is Beauty – Jake Skeets
We begin Chapter Three with a story that explores language as a technology capable of transforming our lived realities. As a Native scholar and poet, Jake Skeets considers the necessary interrogation…
00:33:28 |
Tue 13 Sep 2022
When the Earth Started to Sing – David G. Haskell
This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth. The experience is made entirely of tiny trembling waves in air, the fugitive,…
00:41:19 |
Tue 06 Sep 2022
Of Wandering Angels and Lost Landmarks – Daegan Miller
Daegan Miller is the author of This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent. In this essay, Daegan visits the tree that marks the thousandth westward mile of the Transcontinental Railroad…
00:35:18 |
Tue 30 Aug 2022
They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Around the world, trees are on the move. Last year we published a special multimedia story, told from the perspectives of four native tree species, that explores what is at stake for both ecological …
00:59:35 |
Tue 23 Aug 2022
Giantstone – Andri Snær Magnason
In our final installment on the theme of Ashes from Chapter Two of Living with the Unknown, we enter a fictional world dominated by the monotony and tireless momentum of greed. In this short story fr…
00:49:37 |
Tue 16 Aug 2022
Sanctuary – Camille T. Dungy
Acclaimed poet Camille T. Dungy bears witness to an encounter between a man and an elephant. In an effort to make sense of a world in which so much has been lost, this poem offers us the opportunity …
00:03:58 |
Tue 09 Aug 2022
War on the Air: Ecologies of Disaster – Daisy Hildyard
In this narrated essay, Daisy Hildyard, a scholar of the history of science, examines three stories of atrocity and considers how whiteness has inscribed itself onto the land through violence. In wha…
00:49:46 |
Tue 02 Aug 2022
To See Beyond: A Hoping in Three Pictures – Anna Badkhen
In this narrated essay, writer and journalist Anna Badkhen brings us into histories of imperial collapse. As we continue our exploration of the theme of Ashes and what it means to live in a moment of…
00:22:16 |
Tue 26 Jul 2022
Noiseless Messengers – Rebecca Giggs
This month we move from Initiation into Ashes with five stories from Chapter Two. When so much has been stripped away, how do we bear witness to ruin? How do we continue to be present with that which…
01:00:59 |
Tue 12 Jul 2022
The Vagrants: Butterfly Land Grabs and Other Climate Migrations – Cal Flyn
In this narrated essay, Cal Flyn observes new species of butterflies arriving in Scotland's Orkney Islands. As plants and animals migrate northwards on an unprecedented scale, she faces the haunting …
00:24:59 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
Living with the Unknown Soundtrack – Volker Bertelmann
We invited Oscar-nominated composer Volker Bertelmann, also known as Hauschka, to create a unique companion to the stories in our third volume, Living with the Unknown. The resulting four-part score …
00:25:03 |
Tue 28 Jun 2022
Chasing Cicadas – Anisa George
Amid the cacophony of a cicada emergence, our final narrated essay on the theme of Initiation follows a movement into new rhythms and patterns of becoming. While immersed in a unified chorus of insec…
00:36:22 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
Where the Horses Sing – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
This week, as our journey into Initiation continues, Sufi teacher and author Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee invites us to cross a threshold. Witnessing how humanity is tearing apart the web of life, he calls …
00:20:28 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
Widening Circles – a conversation with Joanna Macy
In this interview from our archive, Buddhist eco-philosopher and author Joanna Macy discusses her life and work. From her anti-nuclear activism in the late 1960s to her work with deep ecology, Joanna…
00:34:00 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
The Creatures of the World Have Not Been Chastened – Lia Purpura
In this narrated essay from our archive, poet and essayist Lia Purpura considers the processes which transform bodies from one state to another and the beginnings that emerge from endings. When she e…
00:17:00 |
Tue 31 May 2022
Navigating the Mysteries – Martin Shaw
Initiation, chapter one of Living with the Unknown, begins where all inquiries into the unknown begin: with myth. In this narrated essay, Martin Shaw provides a mythological framework for forging new…
00:29:11 |
Tue 24 May 2022
The Nightingale's Song – a conversation with Sam Lee
Sam Lee is a Mercury Prize–nominated folk singer, a song collector, and the author of The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird. We spoke with Sam last year in the midst of England’s nightingale season ab…
00:52:12 |
Tue 03 May 2022
Ancient Green: Moss, Climate, and Deep Time – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Long, long ago—before there were trees, before there were flowers, before life existed outside of the churning oceans—mosses bravely ventured onto dry land. In this special Earth Week episode Robin W…
00:36:17 |
Tue 26 Apr 2022
Finding the Mother Tree – a conversation with Suzanne Simard
In honor of Earth Week we’re revisiting our conversation from last year with Dr. Suzanne Simard, the renowned scientist whose groundbreaking research, widely known as “the wood-wide web,” demonstrate…
01:04:38 |
Tue 19 Apr 2022
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