Into a Darker Wilderness

Carolyn Finney , PhD is a storyteller, author, and cultural geographer. A Fulbright Scholar, a Canon National Parks Science Scholar, and recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Studies, she has served on the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board, and has held positions at Wellesley College, the University of California, Berkeley , as well as the University of Kentucky . She was...

Ronald L. Greer II  is a writer and poet whose work appears in  A Darker Wilderness: An Anthology of Black Nature Writing  (Milkweed Press). His poems and stories have appeared in  Doors Adjacent and Night Colors , among others. He’s the 2019 Pamela J. Caligiuri Broadside Award Winner and Co-editor of  American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion , publishing in November 2023 (Coffee House Press). Gr...

Guest: katie robinson Hosts: Erin Sharkey & Michael Kleber-Diggs Recorded in Minneapolis ( Bde Óta Othúŋwe ) on unceded Dakota land. = BOOKS DISCUSSED = The Negroes Send Their Love: Poems, Perspectives, and Possible Futures , by Sean Hill (Milkweed Editions, 2026) A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars , edited by Erin Sharkey (Milkweed Editions 2023) Into a Darker Wilderness...

Guest : Sean Hill Hosts : Erin Sharkey & Michael Kleber-Diggs Recorded at Bemidji State University The Negroes Send Their Love: Poems, Perspectives, and Possible Futures , by Sean Hill (Milkweed Editions 2026) Dangerous Goods , by Sean Hill (Milkweed Editions 2014) Blood Ties & Brown Liquor , by Sean Hill (University of Georgia Press 2008) Aster of Ceremonies , by JJJJJerome Ellis (Milkwee...

It's coming! Season 1, Episode 3: Into the Headwaters with Sean Hill is scheduled to be released on Thursday, June 25.

Episode Two is a deep dive into the other host of Into a Darker Wilderness , Michael Kleber-Diggs, author of the poetry collection Worldly Things . Guest bio Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) (he / him / his) is the author of  Worldly Things  (Milkweed Editions 2021), which won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, the 2022 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry, the 2022 Balcones Poetry Prize, the 20...

Episode One of Into a Darker Wilderness introduces the podcast and its inimitable hosts, Erin Sharkey and Michael Kleber-Diggs . Each episode brings a guest to the show, and for this inaugural talk we've got Erin Sharkey herself, the editor of A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars ( Milkweed Editions ), the anthology that provided the seeds for this new podcast. Guest bi...

Welcome to Into a Darker Wilderness! The podcast is launching on May 27th, 2026; here's a small teaser to whet your appetite. Bon appetit!