Podcast Episode 22: The Watcher on the Wall Reckoning Press Podcast

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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