Consume: Winter 2026

From the Director: Burning Up

Editor's Note: Consume

Poem: Sauerkraut

In the Company of Transplants

What can we learn from plants that grow amid disturbance?

Opening Night

On Tender Systems

The growth of the US highway network disrupted communities and displaced thousands. Can it be made more humane?

Wave Lessons

Wite-Out

Searching for the source of an insatiable need

Containing Wildfire

A biologist-turned-firefighter reflects on the life that rises from ashes.

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Works Cited: The Wizard of the Emerald City (1939)

Revisiting formative books, films, and music