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Panel discussion and reading: “Poetry From Disappearing Places” Saturday, April 13, 1 pm
Deborah Leipziger, Elizabeth Bradfield, Mary Pinard, and Rage Hezekiah. This unmissable panel brings together poetry, science, and art to celebrate ecosystems. Elizabeth Bradfield reads poems about Antarctica from her gorgeous, hybrid book, Toward Antarctica. Rage Hezekiah reads from her stunning collection Yearn, winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Book Contest, sharing poems about resilience. Deborah Leipziger shares poems about the Brazilian rainforest from her new collection, Story & Bone. Mary Pinard reads about the prairie from her award-winning book, Ghost Heart.