Welcome to the Spring 2022 issue of Unearthed!
This issue features the writing and art of nine ESF students. There is poetry, nonfiction, and film. You will read texts that investigate the structural and philosophical wonder of trees, that consider our delicate relationship to place, that balance the rhythm of wonder, and throughout the issue you’ll find a continuous engagement through film with how we make sense of our own inquiries into the world.
The challenging fact for us at Unearthed is that we still often have to turn down good work that is submitted. Issues form their own shape. That said, we always encourage writers and artists to submit again in the future, and we look forward to another issue in the fall.
If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected]. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this issue of Unearthed!
Table of Contents
Poetry
Justin Albinder: Three poems/ Carly Kaste: “Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learn to Love Being a Little Bit Sad a Lot of the Time“
Prose
Rainn Anderson: “Defining Hamburg“/ Meghan Morral: “The Incredible Talking Tree“/ Benjamin Van Gould: Two short nonfictions (A Lifetime at the Beach & The Jeeper’s Jungle)/ Jennifer Wybieracki: “The Facade“
Visual Arts
Matthew Johnson: “Climbing with Environmentalism“/ Eva Kotobuki Sideris: “Tell me where your chicken came from“/ Owen Volk: “Learning from Ghana: Applications of Solar Energy into the Future“
Featured image by Unsplash
The Incredible Talking Tree by Meghan Morral
And somehow, we have still managed to place ourselves at the center of discovering a new form of communication.
A film by Eva Kotobuki Sideris
In this video, Sideris explores the labor and love that goes into processing poultry.
Climbing with Environmentalism, a film by Matthew Johnson
Matthew Johnson embarks on a journey to uncover how his local and global rock climbing community interprets the natural environments they interact in.
A Facade by Jennifer Wybieracki
I find myself lost, craving and consumed. I’m caught in the middle of every memory, and every what-if.
Poetry by Carly Kaste
You can be aware and mindful and in tune to what is good / But the choices we can make are not the ones we really should.
Defining Hamburg by Rainn Anderson
Theater was the one thing I knew I was good at, and it felt like the door to my precious community had been slammed in my face.
Three Poems by Justin Albinder
Light is spewed from city streets, It travels fast, and travels far, But the price to keep the ground well-lit, Is to lose sight of the stars.
A film by Owen Volk
This video leads you through a journey of how solar energy is being implemented in the western African country of Ghana.
Two Short Nonfictions by Benjamin Van Gould
I feel as though the beach itself does not really have a set level of energy, but rather it is reflective of what we feel at the time.