Chrysalis with John Fiege

I’m a professor, filmmaker, and storyteller interested in the question of how we can transform ourselves—as individuals, as societies, as an entire species—in ways that allow our planet’s ecological systems to thrive. I began this work through the study of environmental history and cultural geography. I then became a filmmaker and photographer focused on stories of transformation in the face of ecological peril. Most recently, I launched the Chrysalis newsletter and podcast to have conversations with a wide variety of environmental thinkers, as well as to share my writing on our relationship with the natural world. My newsletter, podcast, and photographs are available for free to anyone. By becoming a paid subscriber on johnfiege.earth—what we call a Butterfly Subscriber—you can also stream my films and post on the community comments section of the newsletter. Your support provides essential resources for the newsletter and podcast to grow and remain free and ad-free for everyone. Humanity has been a very hungry caterpillar, eating everything in sight. Can we now transform into a beautiful butterfly ready to pollinate the flowers, rather than just eat the leaves? This is the question that animates me—and I believe that digging deeply into the question itself can catalyze transformation.

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  Episode #35

  35. Jennifer Huang — “From the Taiwan Cypress in Alishan”

  Sep 29, 202630 min

  Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/35-jennifer-huang-from-the-taiwan-cypress-in-alishan Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Captivate . There is so much going on Jennifer Huang’s poem, “From the Taiwan Cypress in Alishan,” starting with how the words are laid out on the page, with a wide blank space between two columns. It makes me wonder whether I should read across the page or down one column and then the other. The poem works either way. Jennifer takes on the persona of the Cypress tree itself, and the magic flows from there. I’m John Fiege, and this is Chrysalis . You can subscribe at johnfiege.earth, where you will also find show notes and all episodes of the podcast, plus my writing, photographs, and films. Listen on Spotify Jennifer Huang was born in Maryland to Taiwanese immigrants and is the author of Return Flight , winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions. Jennifer holds an MFA in poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and their poems have appeared in POETRY, The Rumpus, Narrative Magazine, and many other publications. Their other recognitions include The Academy of American Poets Prize, The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, and the Brooklyn Poets Fellowship. Listen on YouTube This episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series. I spoke with Jennifer on October 5, 2022. Here is Jennifer Huang reading their poem, “From the Taiwan Cypress in Alishan.” Listen on Captivate Notes and Media Recommendations Return Flight by Jennifer Huang https://milkweed.org/book/return-flight?srsltid=AU7gw4VdCtQtUTmS0vf-kTrPWDfgnchilHob9Cpz2pI4mIILy5BOQgzf Jennifer Huang's website https://www.huangjennifer.com/ Jennifer Huang's Substack https://wildlyrewilding.substack.com/ Jennifer Huang's poets.org page https://poets.org/poet/jennifer-huang “Departure” by Jennifer Huang https://onbeing.org/programs/jennifer-huang-departure/ “Manifest” by Jennifer Huang https://www.poetrynw.org/poetry/jennifer-huang-manifest/ “That dawn at the beach” and “Notes on Orange” by Jennifer Huang https://aaww.org/two-poems-by-jennifer-huang/ “Procedure” by Jennifer Huang https://poems.com/poem/procedure/ “Zuihitsu for Yushan” by Jennifer Huang https://aaww.org/zuihitsu-for-yushan/ Credits This episode was researched by Elena Cebulash, Lydia Montgomery, and Nina Bunn and edited by Sarah Westrich and Kathryn Fair. The podcast assistant is Domenica Klamm. Music is by Daniel Rodríguez Vivas. Mixing is by Morgan Honaker. ----------- Subscribe at https://www.johnfiege.earth/

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  Episode #34

  34. Anne Haven McDonnell — “The Study”

  Sep 22, 202642 min

  Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/34-anne-haven-mcdonnell-the-study Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Captivate . When she was in her twenties, Anne Haven McDonnell worked on an organic farm on an island in British Columbia. She made good friends and visited frequently in the years that followed. In her time there, she had some encounters with wolves, who live wild on the island, and she began to explore the tensions around co-existence with wolves. As Anne turned her attention full-time to poetry, she began to write about wolves and the people who share space with them. On this episode, we dive into one of those poems: “The Study.” Listen on Spotify I’m John Fiege, and this is Chrysalis . You can subscribe at johnfiege.earth, where you will also find show notes and all episodes of the podcast, plus my writing, photographs, and films. Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her poems have been published widely, including in Orion Magazine , The American Journal of Poetry , and The Georgia Review . She is the author of Singing Under Snow , winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and Breath on a Coal , winner of the Halcyon Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a MacDowell fellowship, and she has held residencies at the Andrews Forest and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Listen on YouTube This episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series. I spoke with Anne on September 13, 2022. Listen on Captivate Here is Anne Haven McDonnell reading her poem, “The Study.” Notes and Media Recommendations Singing Under Snow by Anne Haven McDonnell https://msupress.org/9781611865639/singing-under-snow/ Breath on a Coal by Anne Haven McDonnell https://bookshop.org/p/books/breath-on-a-coal-anne-haven-mcdonnell/a856cb6da59bc77c?ean=9781734820898&affiliate=20964 Living with Wolves by Anne Haven McDonnell https://www.splitrockreview.org/store/living-with-wolves Anne Haven McDonnell's profile on National Endowment for the Arts https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/creative-writing-fellows/anne-haven-mcdonnell Anne Haven McDonnell's profile on poets.org https://poets.org/poet/anne-haven-mcdonnell Anne Haven McDonnell's profile on MacDowell https://www.macdowell.org/artists/anne-haven-mcdonnell Credits This episode was researched by Nina Bunn and edited by Sarah Westrich, Kathryn Fair, and Alice McClain. The podcast assistant is Domenica Klamm. Music is by Daniel Rodríguez Vivas. Mixing is by Morgan Honaker. ----------- Subscribe at https://www.johnfiege.earth/

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  Episode #33

  33. Jenny Rosenstrach — Miso-Mushroom Tacos with Pickled Vegetables

  Sep 17, 20261h 4m

  Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/33-jenny-rosenstrach-miso-mushroom-tacos-with-pickled-vegetables Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Captivate . Jenny Rosenstrach writes about food and how food can bring us together. Several years back, her kids started pushing her to think about the climate impacts of the recipes she was writing about, and she began to shift her cooking and writing toward plant-based meals. But rather than strictly abandon meat, she has experimented with greatly reducing her and her family’s consumption of meat. Listen on Apple Podcasts Jenny documented this shift on her many platforms, including her award-winning website, Dinner: A Love Story, and her Substack newsletter. She has written for The New York Times , Martha Stewart Living , and Bon Appétit and is a New York Times Bestselling author of many books, including Dinner: A Love Story , How to Celebrate Everything , and The Weekday Vegetarians . Listen on Spotify I’m John Fiege, and this is Chrysalis . You can subscribe at johnfiege.earth, where you will also find show notes and all episodes of the podcast, plus my writing, photographs, and films. Listen on Captivate This episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Kitchen series, where we kick off our conversation with the discussion of a recipe. I spoke with Jenny on July 12, 2022. Listen on YouTube Here is Jenny Rosenstrach describing the recipe she brought with her: Miso-Mushroom Tacos with Pickled Vegetables. Notes and Media Recommendations The Weekday Vegetarians by Jenny Rosenstrach https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634444/the-weekday-vegetarians-by-jenny-rosenstrach/?fbclid=IwAR3KVV6HRoI8_p7kb9MtJEc6zgbnQxzltvaWQKwHhpUnP20CuHkEpPpDpk0 Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dinner-a-love-story-jenny-rosenstrach?variant=32122670645282 How to Celebrate Everything by Jenny Rosenstrach https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/234273/how-to-celebrate-everything-by-jenny-rosenstrach/ Dinner: A Love Story - Website https://www.dinneralovestory.com/ Jenny Rosenstrach's Substack https://substack.com/@dinneralovestory Jenny Rosenstrach's Linktree https://linktr.ee/dinneralovestory Jenny Rosenstrach's Latest Articles in Bon Appétit https://www.bonappetit.com/contributor/jenny-rosenstrach?srsltid=AfmBOopyaMuJ50Qrncxwm7XJpnJxAm15QMhTXo-QBjfhsxCK4KXq1B6S Credits This episode was researched by Nina Bunn and edited by Sarah Westrich and Marta Kondratiuk. The podcast assistant is Domenica Klamm. Music is by Daniel Rodríguez Vivas. Mixing is by Morgan Honaker. ----------- Subscribe at https://www.johnfiege.earth/

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  Episode #32

  32. Jennifer Elise Foerster — “Leaving Tulsa”

  Sep 8, 20261h 18m

  Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/32-jennifer-elise-foerster-leaving-tulsa Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Captivate . Poet Jennifer Elise Foerster writes in her poem, “Leaving Tulsa,” about a warning from her grandmother: When they see open land they only know to take it. Jennifer has German and Dutch heritage from her father’s side, and Mvskoke heritage from her mother’s side, which includes the grandmother she mentions in her poem. When they see open land they only know to take it. It’s a chilling line that conjures the long history of European displacement of indigenous peoples and the theft of land that has continued for centuries. Listen on Apple Podcasts In my conversation with Jennifer, she talks about amnesia and the collective act of forgetting our history. Her poetry is an act of remembering. Her memories reveal a dramatic transformation of the cultural relationship to the land that came with this displacement of Mvskoke people. I’m John Fiege, and this is Chrysalis . You can subscribe at johnfiege.earth, where you will also find show notes and all episodes of the podcast, plus my writing, photographs, and films. Listen on Spotify Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, The Maybe Bird (2022), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and Leaving Tulsa (2013). She is the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship. She was a Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at the Breadloaf Writers Conference and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She currently teaches for several writing programs and serves as the literary assistant to Joy Harjo, the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate. She lives in San Francisco and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. This episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series . I spoke with Jennifer on November 15, 2022. Here is Jennifer Elise Foerster reading her poem, “Leaving Tulsa.” Listen on YouTube Notes and Media Recommendations Jennifer Elise Foerster's Website: https://www.jenniferfoerster.com/ The Maybe-Bird by Jennifer Elise Foerster https://the-song-cave.com/products/the-maybe-bird-by-jennifer-elise-foerster Bright Raft in the Afterweather by Jennifer Elise Foerster https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/bright-raft-in-the-afterweather Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Elise Foerster https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/leaving-tulsa Jennider Elise Foerster on poets.org https://poets.org/poet/jennifer-elise-foerster When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry , edited by Joy Harjo, with LeAnne Howe and Jennifer Elise Foerster https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393356809 Credits This episode was researched by Nina Bunn and edited by Sarah Westrich and Kathryn Fair. The podcast assistant is Domenica Klamm. Music is by Daniel Rodríguez Vivas. Mixing is by Morgan Honaker. ----------- Subscribe at https://www.johnfiege.earth/

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  Episode #31

  31. Joan Naviyuk Kane — “Exceeding Beringia”

  Sep 1, 20261h 13m

  Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/31-joan-naviyuk-kane-exceeding-beringia Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Captivate . The poet Joan Naviyuk Kane ends her poem, “Exceeding Beringia,” with a call “to make our land our home anew.” I love this unusual phrasing, “our land our home,” connecting the two as one. Listen on Apple Podcasts Joan is writing about a specific area of land. She is Iñupiaq, and her ancestral land includes Beringia, which is a region between Russia and Alaska. Her poem, “Exceeding Beringia,” explores the area’s troubled colonial history and it’s ecological devastation, but it also feels like the beginning of a new era of reclaiming the culture, the land, and the relationships that have been under attack for so long. I’m John Fiege, and this is Chrysalis . You can subscribe at johnfiege.earth, where you will also find show notes and all episodes of the podcast, plus my writing, photographs, and films. Listen on Spotify Joan Naviyuk Kane’s many books of poetry, including The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife , Hyperboreal , and Milk Black Carbon . She is the recipient of many prestigious awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Radcliffe Fellowship, Whiting Award, Paul Engle Prize, and Shelley Memorial Award. I spoke with Joan on July 14, 2022, when she was living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaching at Harvard. She now lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is Chair and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College. This episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series . Here is Joan Naviyuk Kane reading her poem, “Exceeding Beringia.” Exceeding Beringia Joan Naviyuk Kane “I remember the birds ever so many of them when I hunted with the weapons of a child. The water was covered in their numbers, red as the flowers of summer on the mountain. The red phalarope were our prey of choice, there were so many. Today, these birds return yearly, but now only a few return home in spring to show us they remain a part of the land, as we are.” —Herbert Aġiyġaq Anungazuk Nimiqtuumaruq aktunaamik : bound with rope. This land with its laws that serve as wire and root to draw us together. Sinew, snare, the unseen growth of the green tree many rivers south whose stump now shoals into use. Through layer upon layer of land submerged, of ice, of ash, through lakes that cannot be the eyes of the earth. The phreatomagmatic blue sprawl of the Devil Mountain Maar, the Kuzitrun drained by inland veins scrawling tributaries with name upon vanishing name. The giant granite tors at Serpentine: Iyat , the cooking pot sentineled by unscoured stone as it towers endlessly into the flickering sky. Auksruaq , like the blood that seeps across such hot and dim and strenuous times where one still cannot be serene: red phalarope, might we follow, leaving the meadow wet with tears? From nest to fledge and then to move again right out to sea, circling tight vortices to upwell food. Let us lose our grief in great rafts as we translate the renamed straits. Our limbs, like yours, are burnt and broken. Let us at last make noise of this truth as we return together to wear another furrow, to make portage, to make our land our home anew. Listen on YouTube Notes and Media Recommendations Joan Naviyuk Kane Website https://www. thejoankane.com The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife By Joan Kane https://upcolorado.com/university-of-alaska-press/the-cormorant-hunter-s-wife Hyperboreal By Joan Naviyuk Kane https://upittpress.org/books/9780822962625/ Milk Black Carbon By Joan Naviyuk Kane https://upittpress.org/books/9780822964513/ Dark Traffic By Joan Naviyuk Kane https://upittpress.org/books/9780822966623/ with snow pouring southward past the window By Joan Naviyuk Kane https://upittpress.org/books/9780822967668/ Sublingual By Joan Naviyuk Kane https://finishinglinepress.com/product/sublingual-by-joan-naviyuk-kane/ A Few Lines in the Manifest By Joan Naviyuk Kane https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Few_Lines_in_the_Manifest.html?id=vmLquQEACAAJ Another Bright Departure By Joan Naviyuk Kane https://www.thejoankane.com/ Ex Machina By Joan Naviyuk Kane https://asterismbooks.com/product/ex-machina The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the Shortlist By Sue Goyette, Joan Naviyuk Kane, George Szirtes https://www.strandbooks.com/the-2017-griffin-poetry-prize-anthology-a-selection-of-the-shortlist-9781487002329.html Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic By Liisa-R á vn á Finbog , Joan Naviyuk Kane, Johannes Riquet https://www.weslpress.org/9780819501899/circumpolar-connections/ Credits This episode was researched by Elena Cebulash and edited by Alice McClain, Sarah Westrich, and Kathryn Fair. Music is by Daniel Rodríguez Vivas. Mixing is by Morgan Honaker. ----------- Subscribe at https://www.johnfiege.earth/

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