Emily Voigt
Isotope: A Journal of Literary Science and Nature Writing, "The Art is Alive!"
Bioart is often ludicrous. It can be lumpy, gross, unsanitary, sometimes invisible, and tricky to keep still on the auction block. But at the same time, it does something very traditional that art is supposed to do: draw attention to the beautiful and grotesque details of nature that we might otherwise never see.The New York Times, "Teenagers, Scalpels, and Real Cadavers"“It’s like watching ants on something... The kids are just one on one leg, one on the other, one on the arm, one on the other arm, one on the head."The New York Times, "The John Doe of the Brooklyn Badlands"He did not tell anyone outside of work about the bodies he had discovered. Mother Jones Magazine, "Meet the Wonder Twins of Rikers Island""I remember my first time walking into the housing area on my own. I went in and I told myself — you know, you prep yourself up — 'They're human beings, they're human beings.' I walked in and told the guys, 'Sit on the bench for the counting.' Someone at the back of the house yelled, 'F. U., B.!' It was like somebody just clicked a switch right on the back of my head. I became a completely different person, and I've been that way since."OnEarth Magazine, "A Supremely Bad Idea"No sane person would rise at 4:48 a.m. to stand beneath a tree craning for a glimpse of a whip-poor-will — a dull, flattish bird the exact color of bark, more likely to relieve than reveal itself.The New York Times, "Another Day, Another Bloody Corpse""I always say the easiest way to make the guy with the chainsaw look stupid is not to run," Mr. Pickel explained. "Because when he gets up to you, he either has to kill you or turn and walk away."OnEarth Magazine, "Her Legal Crusade" On May 12, the Sichuan earthquake devastated the countryside of Zhang's youth. But even before then the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, scarred by decades of unhindered development.
The Villager, "Mixed Signals: A conflicted metaphor for New York"Our wealthiest friends have the least comfortable couches. Our iconic skyline is best seen from New Jersey. OnEarth Magazine, "Our Man in Chicago"He grew up where the Missouri River enters the Mississippi, in the small steel town of Granite City, Illinois.Odyssey Magazine: The science magazine for young adventurers, "A Day in the Life of Obstetrician Dr. Robin Kalish"Fourteen patients. One hour. Odyssey Magazine: The science magazine for young adventurers, "A Gut Approach to Learning""It kind of looks in a way like cottage cheese. It's a creamish white color. Except it's really thick, kind of stretchy and doesn't dissolve. It's gross."Odyssey Magazine: The science magazine for young adventurers, "Mapping Our Cities" What does your sympathetic nervous system think of where you live?Columbia News Service, "10,000 Birdwatchers Monitor Sick House Finches to Give Scientists Insight into Avian Flu and West Nile Virus"The day after Christmas, Susan Williams, a 34-year-old birdwatcher in Loveland, Ohio, noticed a house finch at her backyard feeder — a lethargic brown female with swollen, pink eyes encrusted with dried ooze.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Their Journey"Bubba doesn’t like the blow-dryer. Immobilized in a halter, he can only let out a deep, mournful bellow.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Rainbows of Paint"A crew of painters had just retired for the day after covering much of the concrete arch with white primer. A tangle of graffiti still graced the hardest-to-reach places, and fresh spray paint already shone in the sun.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Lead at Shooting Range Firing Up Concerns"Rampart Range sits high above a complex, underground water system scientists have only recently come to understand.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Expanded Fine Arts Center Opens with a Bang"“When I was about 7 years old, I went to the Baltimore Museum of Art and bought a Miró print for a dollar. My little friend saw it and said, ‘That’s horrible!’ And that did it: I was hooked on art.”The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Local Architects Give Nod of Approval to New Wing"David Owen Tryba — the Denver-based architect who designed the expansion — has stayed true to the 1936 pueblo-meets-art-deco inspired vision of John Gaw Meem.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Musician Builds Connection in Songs, Travel""We used to have big ideas about what’s possible for humanity. Now it’s like we’re driving a car that’s too old to fix. There are so many people in this world who are like, 'We’ll ride it out till it quits.'"The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Fun, Fins at the Fair"“If you have five carrots, they should all be the same diameter, color and length. The same with beets and onions."The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Theater Director Wears Many Hats -- and Chicken"Birgitta De Pree has put a chicken on her head 44 times this summer — so far.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "When the Tesh Appears in the Flesh, Moms Go Gaga"Most people brought their own music, but Tesh agreed to play keyboard for Dalia Melendez, who improvised a “tribal fusion, hip-hop, flamenco kind of thing with contemporary choreography.”The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Discovering Doolittle""I knew abstract art went over really well, but I didn’t like abstract art."The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Coveted Opera Role Difficult to Perfect"Most people aren’t familiar with the role of Micaëla, the virginal village girl who loses her love, Don José, to the famous sex-charged gypsy.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Man Remembered as Gentle Giant"“I met him one day in Manitou in ’88 when he was carrying several gallons of spring water up the mountain to his house."The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Siblings with Pluck"When her children became serious about fiddling, Harkins retired from her longtime job as a petroleum engineer — to which she had been so devoted she named her daughter Eischen after a petroleum well.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Director Discovers Freedom to Take Chances"Mark Hennessy was a vampire-killer in the '80s.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Husband, Wife Collaborate on Work Taken from Life"“Some people are offended by the figures. They come in and are like, ‘That person doesn’t have their clothes on!’”The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Heal This Playwright"At 44, the mother of eleven is pursuing her bachelor’s degree at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where she produced the play as an independent study.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Pikes Peak Center Bounces Local Play"An original, locally produced play with a mostly black cast was bumped Wednesday from the Pikes Peak Center ten days before opening night.The Colorado Springs Gazette, "Director Sees Chance for Growth"He’s particularly fond of Shakespeare’s “King John” — which you don’t see all that often because “it’s sort of dense, not a lot happens, and King John is petulant and kind of weird.”