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Reckoning Press Podcast Reckoning Press Podcast
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Welcome to the Reckoning Press podcast. Reckoning is a nonprofit, annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice. "Reckoning", according to the definition most relevant here, is an imperfect means of navigation by which one determines where they’re going using only where they’ve been. Environmental justice is the notion that the people (and other living things) saddled with the consequences of humanity’s poor environmental choices and the imperative to remedy those choices are not the ones responsible for them. This podcast will feature very occasional poetry, fiction and essays from the journal, plus interviews with the authors. Hosted by publisher Michael J. DeLuca, with guests.
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Podcast Epsiode 31: The Donor
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Welcome back to the Reckoning Press podcast! It's me, your erstwhile host and publisher, Michael J. DeLuca. We've had some exciting news here, which, in that frustrating way that seems unique to publishing, I don't feel at liberty to share with you yet. But please check back in a month?
In the meantime, here we have for you Bernie Jean Schiebeling's short story, "The Donor", from Reckoning 8, read for you by the author themself. This is a quietly intense story about the commodification of identity and the gulf of misunderstanding that lies between colonizer and colonized. It's an important story, I feel like, and it has stuck with me. Here's hoping it works the same for you.
This episode was recorded and produced by our new audio editor, Aaron Kling.
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Podcast Episode 30: Riverine
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Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! Hey folks, it's me, Michael J. DeLuca, publisher, here with the exciting news that not only do we have a new episode for you, featuring Casey June Wolf reading Danielle Jorgensen Murray's beautiful, Angela Carter-inflected story "Riverine" from Reckoning 5, but we've got a new audio editor and future host, Aaron Kling, whose work you will be hearing here, and which also means hopefully we will have more new episodes coming soon!
So I've got three bios to read you. First, just let me remind you that Reckoning is always open to submissions, and we're currently reading for Reckoning 9, which is a general, unthemed issue—if it's creative writing on environmental justice, we want to read it. ¡Y gracias a nuevo miembro de nuestro departamento editorial Guillermo Mendoza, ahorita tenemos directrices para envíos en español!
Thank you very much for listening, and I hope you enjoy!
"Riverine" by Danielle Jorgensen Murray
Casey's coda: My name is Casey June Wolf, and I chose to read this story because it is so beautiful. It's beautifully written. The way she uses language is enchanting, to me, but it's also beautifully understood. The characters, their experience of the world, their difficulty in understanding, or even seeking to understand, each other. There is still a lot of mystery in the story for me. I guess I'm going to have to listen to it next.