Upcoming:
2023
November 14, 2023, 3pm-5pm EST White House Climate Impacts Discussion Dear Human co-editor & NCA5 Chapter Lead Dr. Jeremy S. Hoffman will participate in the Fifth National Climate Assessment Rollout.
November 16, 2023, 10am-4pm CST University of Nebraska's Communicating Complexity virtual symposium Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poetry as a Vessel for Enriching Climate Change Dialogue: Bradley Allf, Aileen Cassinetto, Jeanine Pfeiffer Register here.
December 1, 2023
Launch of the Dear Human interactive microsite by Wick Poetry Center/Kent State University, in partnership with Poets for Science. The microsite will be presented at AGU23 and Exploratorium After Dark, and will feature poetry prompts, Art x Climate artworks and text from NCA5. The public will be invited to post responses that can be mapped and translated into other languages.
December 11-15, 2023
AGU23: American Geophysical Union's Annual Meeting
Moscone Center, San Francisco
December 11, 8:30am: SY11C-0832 Dear Human at the Edge of Time - a climate change-focused poetry anthology to accompany the Fifth National Climate Assessment
Abstract authors: Jeremy Hoffman, Luisa A. Igloria & Aileen Cassinetto
Poster Hall A-C - South (Exhibition Level, South, MC)
December 14, 9am: INV41C - Poets for Science at AGU: Building a Community Poem
Conveners: Aileen Cassinetto, David Hassler, Jane Hirshfield, Jeremy Hoffman, Kate Semmens
Hall E - North (Exhibition Level, North, MC)
Register here.
December 14, 2023, 6pm-10pm
Art x Climate After Dark at the Exploratorium SF
Pier 15, Embarcadero
Co-sponsored by the U.S. Global Research Program, featuring readings by Jane Hirshfield, Aileen Cassinetto & Jeremy S. Hoffman, Art x Climate artworks, and the Dear Human interactive microsite in partnership with Wick Poetry Center/Poets for Science.
2024
January 6, 2024, 1pm-2:30pm PST PAWA hosts Dear Human reading On Zoom, details TBA
January 10, 2024, 6pm-7pm PST
Burlingame Public Library presents Community Poetry Open Mic Series:
Dear Human: Poets on Climate Change featuring Aileen Cassinetto and Cassandra Bousquet
Lane Community Room
February 10, 2024, 5:00pm-7pm EST
Elizabeth River Project hosts Dear Human at the Edge of Time at the Ryan Resilience Lab
4610 Colley Ave, Norfolk, Virginia
East Coast Book Launch of Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States featuring anthology co-editors Dr. Luisa A. Igloria and Dr. Jeremy S. Hoffman, contributors Gail Giewont, Kindra McDonald Greene, Lesley Wheeler & Denise Wilcox, and ODU Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience Executive Director Dr. Jessica Whitehead
*Elizabeth River Trail's (ERT) director Kindra McDonald Greene is leading a midday program (walk + ceremony) from 12pm to 1pm.
February 16, 2024, 7:30pm-9:30pm CST Soul Bone Literary Festival Midwest Book Launch of Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change n the United States featuring MG Bertulfo, Luisa A. Igloria, Molly Fisk, January Gill O'Neill, and Claire Wahmanholm
Spring 2024
AGU Presentation of Community Poem. Details TBA.
UC Berkeley Dear Human panel co-sponsored by the Berkeley Climate Change Network, the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Details TBA.
Reading at the Mechanics' Institute SF. Details TBA.
Reading & Workshop at Skyline College. Details TBA.
Reading & Workshop at Nueva School, San Mateo. Details TBA.
