Excerpt: At the farm, I’ve seen plants grow. A few days ago, I smoothed my fingers over thousands of black scallion seeds with a funky smell at the bottom of a glass container; the seeds rolled around in small yet persistent waves of water harvested from a pump on the farm. They stuck to my…
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GLWC Pub News: Rachel McKimmy in Canary Lit: A Journal of the Environmental Crisis
“Stone Fly” by Rachel McKimmy, winner of a Hopwood Prize in Nonfiction, appears in the Winter 2021/2022 issue of Canary Lit. Outtake: There is a small stream with an old bridge over it, a bridge which is rotting through. On the ground are several inches of snow. Breath puffs out from between cold-chapped lips, chilled…
GLWC Pub News: Kathryn Sullivan in the Michigan Daily
A world needing respite A World Needing Respite The Michigan Daily, April 7, 2021 By Kathryn Sullivan The two stories started the same: An onslaught of warnings were ignored — surely the media was drastically blowing a problem out of proportion. Worries were minimized. Fears were ignored. Some experts were scorned by those in…
GLWC Pub News: Rachel McKimmy in the Michigan Daily
Immersion writing during a pandemic: A journey of self-discovery “Immersion Writing During a Pandemic: A Journey of Self-Discovery” The Michigan Daily, March 7, 2021 By Rachel McKimmy, GLWC ’20 It was Jan. 8, 2020, the first day of class for the University of Michigan’s winter semester. Around 1 p.m., I was on my way…
GLWC Pub News: Miriam Saperstein in Jewish Currents
https://jewishcurrents.org/a-strike-against-despair/ I joined a group of about 15 students, many of them striking grad students; we all signed in, for the purposes of contact tracing. For three hours, we marched in a wide circle, chanting and dancing and whistling and shouting, each of us at least six feet apart. My glasses foggy, and my…