Emergence #06

Emergence is an annual print magazine looking for the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.

In this issue: Like light passing through a prism to reveal its many colors, the myriad expressions of the Earth unfold through the seasons. We’ve long moved with their simple and sacred rhythm; they are the primary gateway through which the human engages with cycles of creation, destruction, and renewal. But today we estrange ourselves from the seasons with technology and human-centric myths, while an unraveling climate causes them to grow increasingly unfamiliar. Reflecting a world where snow no longer arrives, annual migrations fall out of time, yet first blossoms still burst, Seasons, our sixth print edition, moves through three themes: requiem, invitation, and celebration—each a contemplation on the paradoxical ways the seasons now beckon us into intimate relationship. This collection of haiku, essays, short fiction, photography, conversations, and poetry, infused with a spectrum of color and light, listens for the turning song of the seasons—for what vanishes and what remains—attentive to these moments that call us into communion with the Earth.

Contributors include: Boris Acket; Melanie Challenger; David James Duncan; Camille T. Dungy; CMarie Fuhrman; Forrest Gander; Ben Goldfarb; Bear Guerra; David George Haskell; David Hinton; Jane Hirshfield; Brian Isett; Sandor Ellix Katz; Robin Wall Kimmerer; J. Drew Lanham; Sam Lee; Dara McAnulty; Lydia Millet; Marie Mutsuki Mockett; Ron Moss; Susan Murphy Roshi; Kerri ní Dochartaigh; Zoë Schlanger; Christina Seely; Jake Skeets; Studio Airport; Terry Tempest Williams; Kiliii Yüyan