by Max Cavitch
Discussing the Anthropocene with a Jellyfish
Turritopsis dohrnii can actually reverse its lifecycle…allowing the jellyfish to regrow themselves in an entirely different body plan – Natural History Museum, London
Joanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022) and the chapbook, On Shifting Shoals (Kelsay 2023). A 3-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her poetry appears in Poetry South, Whale Road Review, Sky Island Journal, NC Literary Review, James Crews’ anthology, The Wonder of Small Things, and numerous other journals and anthologies. In 2023 she won Third Wednesday’s annual poetry contest and the Mary Ruffin Poole Prize. She lives on the North Carolina coast, with the ocean and all its inhabitants as her muse. Visit her at https://www.joannedurham.com/. Instagram @poetryjoanne.
Max Cavitch is a photographer, writer, and teacher living in Philadelphia. His photographs have appeared in publications including Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, The Journal of Wild Culture, phoebe, and Politics/Letters and have been exhibited most recently at the Blank Wall Gallery (Athens), the Chania International Photo Festival (Crete), Art Room Gallery, and the Biennale di Senigallia, Senigallia (Italy). For several years, he has been a contributing photographer for the public-science project, iNaturalist. A number of his photographs will also appear in his new book, Ashes: A History of Thought and Substance, forthcoming from Punctum Books in 2025.