Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States West Coast Book Launch and Reading
September 30, Saturday, 1pm to 3pm, at Clarion, 2 Waverley Pl, San Francisco
Co-sponsored by the Clarion Performing Arts Center, Paloma Press and Poets & Writers, Inc. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP here.
Featuring:
Aileen Cassinetto, anthology co-editor Molly Fisk, editor of California Fire & Water (2020) Clara Hsu, founder & executive director of Clarion Performing Arts Center Marisa Lin, 2023 Poetry Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center Karen Llagas, author of All of Us Are Cleaved (Nomadic Press, 2023) David S. Maduli, Joy Harjo Poetry Prize recipient Jeanine Pfeiffer, ethnoecologist Jordan Sher, author of And Still We Rise: A Novel about the Genocide in Bosnia (2021) Kim Shuck, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Maw Shein Win, Inaugural Poet Laureate of El Cerrito
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 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.
