Pandemic Poetry

There’s nearly 20 in our “room,” and no one is sitting next to me. Broadcasting live from his bedroom wearing a “Speak your Truth” t-shirt, Dylan Collins introduced the next poet, who joined in a picture below him. Todd Loughran smiled as he appeared on everyone’s screen. Down in the chatbox, hearts and clapping emojis …

Mycological Maniacs and Endomycorrhizal Enthusiasts: Humboldt County’s Mushroom People

Nick Hensler’s 2-bedroom apartment in Arcata is the centre of operations for a master-planned mushroom kingdom. In one of the rooms, a perfectly square and tall shelf made from pallets features 4 levels, each carrying 12 bags of incubating mycelium. The bags align up evenly and orderly like a line of soldiers in a batallion. …

Communicator

Note-cards scrawled with sentiments of students-past accumulate in the garage of Professor Maxwell Schnurer house. The collection of over 20,000 cards created over the course of 12 years contains hundreds of student comments on the topic of sexualized violence. They are now starting to deteriorate. Schnurer is working, in coordination with the HSU library and …