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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.

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Hi everyone, I'm Catherine Rockwood, and today on the Reckoning Magazine Podcast I'm going to be reading "The Watcher on the Wall" by Rebecca Bratten Weiss. And this poem is featured in Reckoning 6, which we are very proud of and which hope you will pick up or survey.

So the way we'd like to order the podcast is, first I'm going to tell you a little bit about Rebecca, and then I'm going to say a few words about what we really loved about this poem when it came through in the submissions, and then I'm going to read you the poem. Okay, so here goes.

(Rebecca's bio appears below.)

So on to some thoughts about the poem itself. Here I would just say that what we loved about Rebecca's poem was its clarity and anger, its willingness to fully engage with difficult human relationships with which and by means of which we try to understand the enormous danger and uncertain outcomes of environmental destruction. When climate communicators talk about the need to face difficult things, well, you'll see what this poem does with that. It embodies the process of facing difficult things in a way we found both grave and uncanny, disturbing and galvanizing. And we hope you agree.

"The Watcher on the Wall" by Rebecca Bratten Weiss