Abstract
Elizabeth Bradfield, a poet/naturalist who has worked in the Arctic since 2008, will share work from her book-in-progress of poems that interweaves the lives of Rear Admiral Donald B. MacMillan, his wife Miriam, and her own experiences in the Arctic. Grounded in history and science, expressed in story and poetry, Bradfield’s approach allows for a complex reckoning of knowledge and wonder, information and emotion, experience and fumbling.