Welcome to the 2019 Spring Issue (Part 2) of Unearthed!
Unearthed is an online literary magazine published by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) and run by undergraduate and graduate student editors working in collaboration with the Writing Program and ESF Communications staff. The journal focuses on works that define the environment as what Glen Mazis calls “surround”–the natural and social world that species share. We honor the legacy of SUNY-ESF’s original print creative journal, Ecologue and seek to publish work in the genres of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and artwork. We especially encourage works in new media and those that blend genres such as photo and video essays.
If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected]. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this issue of Unearthed!
Poetry
Jordan Dunn: poem/ Logan Fry: poems/ J.D. Ho: Poem/ Jennifer Schomburg Kanke: poems/ Stephen Kuusisto: poems/ Carolyn Martin: poem/ Georgia Popoff: poems/ Joyce Sutphen: poems/ Michelle Tokarczyk: poems/ Ken Walker: “Composition for Distant Sound“/ Cesca Janece Waterfield: poem
Prose
Rachel Barham: “Coral Reef 911“/ Tyler Dorholt: “Interview with Stephen Kuusisto“/ Bethany Ellio: “Fission“/ Michael Forester: “The Man Who Spoke to the Dryads“/ Jack Mungo: “I Was Raised Catholic“/ Aidan Murphy: “Political Games“/ Laura St. Onge: “The Moon, Our Friend“/ Crystal Smith: “Death Inside Her Head“/ Jessica Yale: “Gold Rush“
Visual Arts
Katlyn Brumfield: artwork/ Rebecca Cristante: photograph/ Patrick Cole: photography/ Laurence Holden: artwork/ Dawnelle Jager: photography/ Devang Shrimali: photography
Featured image by Unsplash
Interview with Stephen Kuusisto
"You go back to the roots and then what comes out of that experience is shocking, it’s beautiful. And it rarely disappoints me if I approach things like that."
Five Poems, Stephen Kuusisto
They speak of god along with cloud-esteem, sheep watching, plenty of softness.
Five Poems, Joyce Sutphen
and by the end of the season we had / enough cash to make it down to Berkeley
Fission, Bethany Elliot
The human body contains an incomprehensible number of atoms ...
Artwork by Katlyn Brumfield
Katlyn [...]
Composition for Distant Sound, Ken L. Walker
These meanings make a map, / remain quiet, anticipate the construction
I Was Raised Catholic, Jack Mungo
It’s when I reflect on my early worldview that I know I will never introduce my children to any religion before they reach their age of reason.
Death Inside Her Head, Crystal Smith
As I ascended to the crest of the hill, the sun broke the edge of the horizon ...
Three Poems, Georgia A. Popoff
For a moment / the worm dazzled in the spotlight / before finding a small crack leading to tunnel,
Photographs by Patrick Cole
Five photographs
Artwork by Laurence Holden
Five photographs
One Poem, J.D. Ho
I was the first to be known in this way.
A Photograph by Rebecca Cristante
Rebecca Cristante is an Atlanta based visual [...]
One Poem, Cesca Janece Waterfield
Its roots scooped down below the well, and sprawled / in a web like the human nervous system ...
Coral Reef 911, Rachel Evangeline Barham
The first time I saw a coral reef for myself, I emerged from the water as an evangelist.
Two Poems, Jennifer Schomburg Kanke
We know the taste of sassafras tea / and the ruckus of cicadas in the trees.
The Man Who Spoke to the Dryads, Michael Forester
He would have his clients lie supine on the floor, place them into trance with a combination of murmured incantations ...
One Poem, Carolyn Martin
Every boundary line, / dam, trellis, and mended wall will rumble down.
From Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, Jordan Dunn
illumination of loons in perennial occurrence ...
Photographs by Devang Shrimali
Devang Shrimali: "I am [...]
Two Poems, Michelle M. Tokarczyk
But still on these streets that wind through / the hills, on the country hills that squeeze / so much green out of such a short summer
Three Poems, Logan Fry
Murmur sold us one mass out of / blights I climb up, dank.
Political Games, Aidan Murphy
Unlike famous Blair alumnus Sylvester Stallone, I did not get into any fist fights at Blair ...
The Moon, Our Friend, by Laura St. Onge
I do not know what the moon means.
Gold Rush: The Changing World of Kazakh Eagle Falconry, by Jesse Yale
The use of Golden eagles in falconry remains a compelling piece of imagery and it is easy to see why.
Two Photographs by Dawnelle Jager
Dawnelle Jager: Photographs: "Anticipated Velocity"--Scene hours [...]