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Wednesday, February 28
 

7:00pm EST

Poetry, the Natural World, the Climate Crisis, and Connection: A Reading and Workshop with Nadia Colburn, PhD.
Wednesday February 28, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Poets have long understood the connection between, in the words of Robert Frost, “inner and outer weather.” Today, as human activity is changing the climate and our earth at an unprecedented rate, poetry helps us find our grounding and gives us tools for greater connection, voice, and vision.
In this interactive reading and workshop, poet, teacher, and activist Nadia Colburn will read from her poetry book I Say the Sky and lead participants in meditations, prompts, and discussion around our own inner and outer weathers. How do we stay grounded in this time of crisis? How do we cultivate and nourish a vision of connection and belonging? And how can we find our own voice amidst both the clamoring noise of our public, busy world, and the many forces of silence around us?
Nadia will share her own poems and her personal journey behind them; she’ll also share her unique method of coupling mediation and writing so that participants can experience for themselves the power of listening and writing from a more integrated place. There will be time for writing and discussion, and we’ll explore ways to create bridges between poetry and environmental and social engagement.
The workshop is designed to be both restorative and energizing, and is appropriate for people with any level of writing and environmental experience. Take home resources to deepen your connection to poetry as well as new ways to get involved in environmental action.
Wednesday February 28, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Brookline Public Library
 
Tuesday, May 28
 

7:00pm EDT

Sophie Cabot Black in Boston
Tuesday May 28, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

Sophie Cabot Black has four poetry collections: The Misunderstanding of Nature, which received the Poetry Society of America’s First Book Award, The Descent, which received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award, and The Exchange which received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. NPR labels her a “poet’s poet” and Billy Collins calls her voice “fresh and daring”. Her newest collection, Geometry of the Restless Herd, is out in May of 2024. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. 
 
The evening will be hosted by poet and translator Nidia Hernandez and Jennifer Barber, the current poet laureate of Brookline, and is co-sponsored by the New England Poetry Club and the Brookline Commission for the Arts.
Tuesday May 28, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Brookline Public Library
 


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