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Emily Wortman-Wunder

@wortmanwunder.bsky.social
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Reader, writer, dreamer. I listen for owls in the night and peer too closely at bees. NOT A THING TO COMFORT YOU (Univ of Iowa Press 2019)

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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
On March 1, I'll have the treat of talking with @wendyjohnsonmd.bsky.social about her new book, Kinship Medicine, which explores the deep connections between health and nature. Join us at Matter Bookstore in downtown Denver: www.eventbrite.com/e/author-tal...
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Author Talk: Dr. Wendy Johnson on Kinship Medicine Reading & Conversation
Join us for an enlightening author talk with Dr. Wendy Johnson in conversation with her new book, Kinship Medicine.
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I had so much fun talking with @rlmaizes.bsky.social for this piece!
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Butterflies in my yard today: tiger swallowtail, cabbage white, least skipper, common checkered skipper. Also two bumblebees. That's Denver Colorado in early July. (Still no painted ladies, which is strange and ominous)
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I love how this first line in @coloradoreview.bsky.social 's summer issue takes us on a journey
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Just back from Banff, Canada, which felt like the Realm of Rocks in the same way that when I first visited Yellowstone at age 16 it felt (compared to Ohio) like the Realm of Wild Beasts--like this was their place, and we were just visiting. Simplistic, probably, but it still feels true
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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Sprawl is having its moment as a possible solution to the housing crisis. But this is narrow, linear thinking applied to complex systems. The side effects of sprawl are as bad if not worse than the problems it would solve.
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Sprawl Is Still Not the Answer
A chorus of critics insist that building on undeveloped land is the only way out of the US housing crisis. But the environmental costs of unrestrained growth are overwhelming.
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
When modern people started farming, they built with what was available locally in abundance, mostly with renewable or reusable materials. Clay, wood, straw, stone. We did this for thousands of years. 1/2 foto: maris mezulis
Timber cobstruction with earth infill between joists.  Hortus building by Herzog de Meuron, Erden.at photo by
https://www.marismezulis.com/
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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#ArtDD2025 Herring gull Never understood why people don't like gulls; there again, I've never had a chip nicked by one!😄 Orig 📷 by @danjbrown97.bsky.social with thanks. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social
Painting of white gull from front, looking to left, with yellow beak with red spot on lower part, and glimpses of dark grey wing feathers on left.
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Wildlifeel at Home @wildlifeelathome.com · 21/02/2025
Your yard isn’t yours. It belongs to the foxes at night, the birds in the morning, the squirrels in the afternoon, and the gophers whenever they feel like it. Moral of the story: You’re just a tenant in nature’s world. #natureisboss #rewild #coexist #treadlightly #earnyourkeep #shareresources #wild
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
One place our government could save a lot of money is the billions given to Elon Musk's companies every year. abcnews.go.com/US/musk-work...
Chart showing the federal contracts to musk's companies rising from 630 million in 2015 to 3.67 billion last year
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Late last year I go the chance to talk with Linnea Harris at the Colorado Review about my essay published in their Fall/Winter issue--seriously, SUCH a great journal to work with. coloradoreview.colostate.edu/2025/02/a-co...
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A Conversation with Emily Wortman-Wunder - Center for Literary Publishing | Colorado State University
Emily Wortman-Wunder discusses “Geography of Forgetting,” featured in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Colorado Review, with associate editor Linnea Harris.  Emily Wortman-Wunder is the author of Not a T...
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I'm going to force rhubarb this year--my first attempt. Is it too early? Is my setup too half-assed? I'll find out!
Terracotta pot upside down in a winter garden, half buried in compost.
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
What I'm reading, January 2025 edition: two Aussie novels and @dannymlavery.bsky.social 's Women's Hotel.
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TODERIAN UrbanWORKS Inc. (TUW) @toderianuw.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
“9. Take every opportunity to participate in civic life. Linger in and enjoy good parks, places, and streets every day, not just during special events. Your very presence and engagement adds life, vitality, and safety to a place, and helps them be more enjoyable for everyone.” #NewYearsResolutions
Pedestrians street filled with people in Santiago Street parking space transformed into outdoor cafe seatingVancouver’s Olympic Village Plaza filled with people Parking lot transformed into people place
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
One of my favorite childhood authors and one no one else around me (in the US) knew about!
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
So this week Elise & I hosted a small gingerbread gathering, and @cottomanempire.bsky.social created… an EDIBLE WILDLIFE OVERPASS. Check out those migrating animal-cracker bison! The crushed Oreo asphalt of the road! The flawless curvature of the gingerbread bridge! A true #roadecology masterpiece.
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
For those among us nerdy enough, please enjoy these images of the plain plaster at Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire. Interesting to see various methods, the use of additional materials and the layers 🤩 🤓
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 19/12/2024
This from @pekkatahkola.bsky.social winter-cycling ambassador of Oulu: "Metsokangas elementary school in the far suburbs of Oulu. It was -31°C in the morning. Just 1 of 4 parking lots for students. It's not about the cold, it's the safe infrastructure & excellent maintenance. No rocket science."
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 19/12/2024
When the going gets cold, the Finns keep cycling. Illuminated bike paths on compacted and textured snow in Oulu, #Finland. Thanks to @harrivaarala.bsky.social for the video!
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Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This isn't new to the world, but it's new to me and blew my little mind this morning: some African elephants are rapidly evolving to not have tusks because of ivory poaching 😟 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ivory poaching and the rapid evolution of tusklessness in African elephants
Intensive ivory poaching during a period of civil conflict caused the rapid evolution of tusklessness in an African elephant population.
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
My essay "Rooted" got selected for Creative Nonfiction's anthology The Final Issue (creativenonfiction.org). I'm a little in awe of the company it's keeping.
Cover of Creative Nonfiction: The Final Issue. The Best of Thirty Years of Creative Nonfiction.
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I kept hoping Totoro's cat bus would arrive. Instead it was just the (very slow) E train.
Snow falling on an urban train station at night.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Fascinating, hopeful case: legally enforceable rights just granted to the Snohomish River watershed in Everett City, Washington State. “Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
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A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights - Inside Climate News
Voters in the city of Everett chose to grant the Snohomish River watershed rights to exist, regenerate and flourish as part of a November ballot initiative.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Mindblowing presentation last night by USFWS’s Kristin Salamack: temporary fencing deployed in southeastern Colorado during fall mating season successfully funneled tarantulas (& the occasional burrowing owl) into preexisting culverts. That’s right: it’s America’s first SPIDER WILDLIFE CROSSING. 🤯
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"You assholes, you’re the reason that every fucking new car is blinding the shit out of everyone.” I really like the rhetorical choices made by Nate here.
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NPR @npr.org · 30/11/2024
When Richard III's skeleton was found under a parking lot in England in 2012, it was an exciting enough discovery for the general public, but a game-changer for Yvonne Morley-Chisholm.
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How do you re-create the voice of a 15th century king? Dig up his skeleton
When Richard III's skeleton was found under a parking lot in England in 2012, it was an exciting enough discovery for the general public, but a game-changer for Yvonne Morley-Chisholm.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
To say: my profile pic is a LiDAR image showing the river-ghosts—historical meanders—of the Lower Mississippi. Water, wandering, wilfully. It’s by Daniel Coe, who has deep-mapped the pasts of many rivers. See more of his work at dancoecarto.com/work & below. What wild, wondrous beings rivers are.
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Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A silver skull-shaped watch case that opens to reveal the watch dial (the jaw can be lowered to reveal the dial) The watch is decorated at the back with a memento mori scene of two skeletons, a winged hourglass and a table with crucifix and candles. c.1600 (Sold at Christies in 2017) #skystorians
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
"Wisdom sits in places, the Apache say. So what happens when we mow it all down?" Thrilled beyond measure to have my essay "Geography of Forgetting" published in the Colorado Review this fall: coloradoreview.colostate.edu/features/geo...
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Geography of Forgetting - Center for Literary Publishing
About the Feature Author: Emily Wortman-WunderPublished: Fall 2024 Geography of Forgetting Photo By Nicolò Canu on Unsplash 1. One landmark falls, and then another. For years I would look for the dull...
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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
One of the great tragedies of history is that Maarten van Nieuwenhove had a face born to wear an oversized Metallica tshirt that smelled of weed but was forced to live in the 15th century
He looks like a stoned botany major. He looks like he didn’t know the portrait was being painted at first and now he’s stuck in an awkward position and he can’t change it. He looks like a dairy farmer named Mazza. He looks like he drives a ute older than he is.
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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
give this writer every. single. award.
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Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Apparently I was stalking bears on my hike yesterday (that crinkly foot bottom!)
Closeup of a dusty trail with grass on one side. Across the dust is the print of a bike tire and on top of that a delicate print that at first looks like a child's bare foot until you realize that a bear is much more likely.
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