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From ochre caves to ultramarine skies, Stephanie Krzywonos reminds us: colors are not surface—they are story, blood, memory. To see pigment is to glimpse the history of human longing and grief. 🕯️

Read: emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...

@stephkrzywonos.bsky.social

Grateful to Emergence Magazine for publishing "Museum of Color," my latest essay on pigment as a form of nature, our love and lust for color, and the strange places they can lead us.

emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...

I never liked the namesake of the Nathaniel B. Palmer (someone who slaughtered seals in Antarctica), but throwing away America's only icebreaker research vessel is a huge setback.

"With President Trump’s return to the White House, the United States’ approach to Antarctica may shift. The National Science Foundation...is proposing iceberg-size research cuts to polar science in 2026. Around 70 percent of the money currently in that pot for both poles could vanish."

"Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came."

Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"

Finally found the source of one of my favorite Wendell Berry quotes ― "There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places" ― and it is "How to Be a Poet."

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Happy publication day to THE DRY SEASON by @melissafebos.bsky.social! You're a master of memoir and I'm so lucky to have learned from you!

Very excited to see a fellow Ice (Antarctica) person, Tessa Hulls, win the Pulitzer Prize for her graphic memoir "Feeding Ghosts"!

us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

Milton is ready and fired up for the #handsoff Iowa City protest!

The look of longing you see in his beady brown eyes is for the treats I used to bribe him to sit still.

Really feel for the people trapped in this Antarctic research station because I CAN imagine what this is like.

The International Writing Program was told on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs was terminating their federal funding.

“The damage caused by gutting the [Antarctic] science budget like this is going to last generations."

"Writing is like giving birth: we cannot help making the supreme effort."

[Simone Weil, "Gravity and Grace"]

Thank you for publishing Elisabeth's brilliant article. I'm a former contractor myself who has been assaulted and knows too many other women who have been, too. This kind of reporting is important for people's safety.

A woman I know was stalked in #Antarctica for three summers and not helped:

"The contractor and NSF could have had safety protocols to prevent harassment. But making women and victims the problem has long been standard in Antarctic science."

Two of my women friends have the exact same thing post-covid and it's awful.

As a long hauler and as a writer, thank you for writing this.

That sucks! I'm sorry. I tested positive for fourteen days...

Thanks, Mike!!