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DEAR HUMAN AT THE EDGE OF TIME Poems on Climate Change in the United States Edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto & Jeremy S. Hoffman
In October 2023, the congressionally mandated Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) report is scheduled for release under the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Crucial information it has gathered will help the nation assess and respond to changes in the natural and man-made environment. The anthology Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States was created out of the need to tell our human stories, alongside the science, and is offered as a companion to NCA5.
Edited by 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows Luisa A. Igloria and Aileen Cassinetto & NCA5 Chapter Lead Dr. Jeremy S. Hoffman, Dear Human at the Edge of Time features the work of 70+ contributors including Union of Concerned Scientists Director of Strategic Climate Analytics Erika Spanger and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, with a Foreword by Claire Wahmanholm and Afterword by Dr. Sam Illingworth.
To help amplify the message of the anthology, Dear Human will be the focus of the AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting’s community poem and interactive panel discussion featuring award-winning poet, translator, essayist, and Poets for Science co-founder Jane Hirshfield, Wick Poetry Center Director David Hassler, AGU Science & Society Art & Science Track Co-Lead Dr. Kathryn A. Semmens, and anthology co-editors Cassinetto and Hoffman. Every year, the AGU Fall Meeting convenes >25,000 attendees from 100+ countries to share research and network. This year’s Fall Meeting will take place in San Francisco from December 11th to 15th.
The anthology, which grew out of the National Poets Laureate civic projects, was made possible with support from the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture and the Mellon Foundation‘s laureate initiative, with programmatic support from the National Climate Assessment and the Academy of American Poets.
