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Building Bridges: Literature and Climate Justice
Saturday, February 10, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Literature itself can be a form of activism, but what is the relationship between literature and nonliterary activism? How is literature distinct? As the environmental and climate crisis threatens life as we know it, five writers explore the relationship between writing (sometimes across genres) and environmental justice. They’ll discuss ways writers can both celebrate their unique contributions and build bridges with other fields to form greater connection, community, engagement, and action.
Participants
Nadia Colburn is an independent scholar with the Ronin Institute and has published in the New Yorker, APR, Slate, Literary Imagination, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She leads creative writing workshops and is a founding editor at Anchor Magazine: where spirituality and social justice meet.
Sarah Rose Nordgren is an American writer, teacher, and activist. She is author of two poetry collections, a hybrid-genre chapbook, and the nonfiction book, The Bird Hat Wearer’s Journal. She holds a PhD in poetry from University of Cincinnati and serves as director of the School for Living Futures.
Jason Myers is executive director of EcoTheo Collective, a nonprofit that publishes EcoTheo Review and hosts an annual literary festival called Wonder. He is the author of Maker of Heaven & and the forthcoming A Place for the Genuine: Reflections on Nature, Poetry, and Vocation.
Roger Reeves’s first book of poems is King Me, from Copper Canyon Press. He has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a 2013 NEA Fellowship. His next book of poems, Best Barbarian, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton.
Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Whiting Award, and Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is from the Navajo Nation.
