To help you plan your festival schedule, we broke down panels, workshops, and group readings by special interest. Check out those dealing with the environment below!
Environment
Thursday 3/27:
2-3:30pm – Wilderness Society Conference
Room
Rethinking the City: Poetic Strategies for Renewing Urban
Space
Jennifer
Karmin, Claudia La Rocco, Pireeni Sundaralingam
Urban lives are designed and controlled
as never before. This round-table brings together a diverse range of poets from
different schools of poetry whose work is united in challenging the homogeneity
of cities, and whose work and practices create new ways to visualize and
interact with the landscapes in which we live. The round-table will provide a
much-needed platform through which to compare the artistic interventions being
used in different cities, and to examine how individual citizen-artists can
play a role in reshaping urban environments through their art.
4-5:30pm – Wilderness Society Conference
Room
The Environment in Crisis: Poetry & Activism
Ann Waldman, Ross
Gay, Wang Ping, Melissa Tuckey
We recently passed 400 parts per
million of Co2 in the atmosphere, bringing us close to the number 450, which
climate scientists warn we must avoid. Environmental regulations have been
rolled back or disappeared. Oil and gas development in the US is ravaging our
water systems and air. A former head of Monsanto now runs the FDA. All these
problems are connected, none is more urgent than any other, and all are linked
to social justice problems. Time for a major paradigm shift! What are poets
doing? What can poets do? Panelists will discuss their eco-poetic activism and
brainstorm ways to come together as a community around this growing crisis.
Friday 3/28:
2-3:30pm –
Wilderness Society Conference Room
Re-Imagining the Nature Poem: Post-Pastoral, Post-Colonial,
Eco-Spectacle, Eco-Justice Poetry
Melissa Tuckey, Ravi Shankar, Gregory
Pardlo, Maria Melendez Kelson, Natalie Diaz
European Romantic conventions continue
to influence American conceptions of nature – as outside of ourselves, as
depoliticized, a place to meditate in tranquility, a place to prove one’s
independence or manhood. Poets on this panel bring a wide range of cultural
traditions to the table and are writing stylistically diverse poetries. They
will read their own work and discuss the origins of nature poetry in multiple
cultural traditions, with an eye for how our conceptions about nature have (or
haven’t) changed over time. What role has poetry played in shaping these
conceptions? What shifts are in motion? What role might the imagination play in
healing our relationships to one another and to the planet? What role might
language play?
Saturday 3/29:
11:30am-1pm –
Wilderness Society Conference Room
Extending the Circle of Compassion: Including Non-Human Animals in
Social Justice Poetry
Kazim Ali, Ross Gay,
Gretchen Primack, Gabriel Gudding
Philanthropist and philosopher Albert
Schweitzer encouraged people to "extend (their) circle of compassion"
to include animals, and fellow activists from Coretta Scott King to Cesar
Chavez to Ghandi to Dick Gregory to Breeze Harper have done the same. This
panel's poets will discuss how and why to include themes of non-human animals
in poetry of provocation and witness, and also read work – their own and
others' – on this theme. All participants have thought deeply about and written
extensively on these topics, and the choices they have made in their lives
reflect these values.
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