Join the virtual book launch and poetry reading on August 31st, Thursday, at 4pmPT/7pm ET, hosted by the South San Francisco Public Library and co-sponsored by the Institute for Coastal Adaptation & Resilience (ICAR) at Old Dominion University and The Academy of American Poets. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
WHAT: Dear Human at the Edge of Time Virtual Book Launch WHEN: Thursday, August 31, 2023, at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern WHERE: Zoom (register here)
Featuring:
Ada Limón, U.S. Poet Laureate
Aileen Cassinetto, co-editor & San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita
Angela Narciso Torres, author of What Happens Is Neither (Four Way Books 2021)
Claire Wahmanholm, author of Meltwater (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
Eileen R. Tabios, author of The Inventor (Marsh Hawk Press, 2023)
Erika Spanger, Director of Strategic Climate Analytics in the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Ernesto L. Abeytia, Spanish-American poet and educator
Jeremy S. Hoffman, co-editor and Lead Scientist, Fifth National Climate Assessment
Jessica C. Whitehead, Joan P. Brock Endowed Executive Director, Institute for Coastal Adaptation & Resilience (ICAR)
Lee Ann Roripaugh, author of tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), NYPL’s Best Book of 2019
Luisa A. Igloria, co-editor and Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Emerita
Mac Mestayer, former Jefferson Lab experimental physicist
Rajiv Mohabir, author of Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021), winner of the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur award
Renato Redentor Constantino, Deputy Chair of the Expert Advisory Group of the 58-government Climate Vulnerable Forum
Sam Illingworth, Chief Executive Editor of Geoscience Communication
Sony Ton-Aime, Michael I. Rudell Director of Literary Arts at Chautauqua Institution
This is just the first of several readings and promo programs we’ll do into spring 2024, which includes an in-person book launch on September 30th at Clarion Performing Arts Center in San Francisco featuring Molly Fisk, Marisa Lin, Karen Llagas, David S. Maduli, Jeanine Pfeiffer, Jordan Sher, Kim Shuck, and Maw Shein Win, with Aileen Cassinetto & Clara Hsu.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy through the U.S. Global Research Program has, for the first time, provided a pathway for artists to participate in the National Climate Assessment, and help visualize the impacts of climate change. Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States is offered as a companion to the congressionally mandated Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), to encourage stories of climate justice and stories of resilience. Edited by Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows Luisa A. Igloria & Aileen Cassinetto and NCA5 Chapter Lead Dr. Jeremy S. Hoffman, the anthology’s 70+ contributors include Union of Concerned Scientists Director of Strategic Climate Analytics Erika Spanger and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, with Foreword by Claire Wahmanholm and Afterword by Dr. Sam Illingworth. The anthology is forthcoming in September when the Fifth National Climate Assessment is also scheduled for release. The anthology is made possible with support from the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture, the San Mateo County Arts Commission, and the Academy of American Poets and Mellon Foundation’s poet laureate initiative.
Anthology contributors include Ernesto L. Abeytia, Bradley Allf, Anna Bartel, Kristin Berkey-Abbott, Mary Grace Bertulfo, Amanda M. Blake, Dave Bonta, Cassandra Bousquet, Allen Braden, Cynthia Buiza, Kate Cell, Eva Chen, Everett Cruz, Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon, Sofia Fall, Molly Fisk, Mary Fitzpatrick, Eric Forsbergh, Sue Davis Gabbay, Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell, Gail Giewont, Caitlin Gildrien, Annette Holland, John Hoppenthaler, Catherine Hulshof De La Peña, E.W.I. Johnson, Melinda Koyanis, Marisa Lin, Karen Llagas, Katharyn Howd Machan, David S. Maduli, Kindra McDonald, Joshua McPeak, Mac Mestayer, Claire Millikin, Rajiv Mohabir, Heidi Mordhost, Susanne Moser, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, January Gill O’Neil, Calvin Olsen, Craig Santos Perez, Jeanine Pfeiffer, Ngoc Pham, Alice Plane, Kyle Potvin, Aman Rahman, Chelsea Rathburn, Sheri Reda, Kim Roberts, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Ellen Sander, Alan Semerdjian, Emily Schulten, Jordan Sher, Kim Shuck, Martha Silano, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Erika Spanger, Mark Spitzer, Eileen R. Tabios, Ellen Taylor, Sony Ton-Aime, Angela Narciso Torres, Brian Turner, Cindy Veach, Claire Wahmanholm, Leana Weissberg, Lesley Wheeler, Wendi White, Denise Wilcox, Maw Shein Win, Diana Woodcock, Khaty Xiong, & U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
