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SUMMARY:Poets for Science
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a celebration of Poets for Science with 
 a reading by Pulitzer-prize winner Forrest Gander joined by Jane 
 Hirshfield\, Kimiko Hahn and Meryl Natchez. Poets for Science started on 
 Earth Day\, April 22\, 2017\, when demonstrators around the world 
 participated in a March for Science in a call to support and safeguard the 
 scientific community\, fact-based decision making\, basic research\, and 
 freedom of speech for scientists. Jane Hirshfield joined poets and 
 scientists in a March for Science on the National Mall in Washington D.C. 
 This program is in collabration with the Marin Poetry 
 Center.\n\nRegistration highly recommended. Adults and high school students 
 only! Free wine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. Waitlist 
 line opens up at 6:45 on a first come\, first served basis. \n\nDuring the 
 month of May\, the Library will also be displaying a special collection of 
 14 human-sized poems banners\, curated by Jane Hirshfield.  Each poem in 
 the Poets for Science collection was specifically chosen by Hirshfield to 
 demonstrate the connection between poetry and science\, and how each 
 discipline can inform the work of the other. \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nForrest 
 Gander\, known best as a writer and translator\, has a degree in geology 
 and a lifelong fascination with poetry and science. Gander’s book Be With 
 was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Concerned with the way we are revised 
 and translated in encounters with the foreign\, his book\, Core Samples 
 from the World\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National 
 Book Critics Circle Award. Gander's books have been translated and 
 published in more than a dozen other languages\, and he has been awarded 
 the Best Translated Book Award. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller 
 Fellow and has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the 
 Arts and the Guggenheim\, Whiting\, and Howard Foundations. In 2011\, he 
 was awarded the Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship.\n\n 
 \n\n\n\nJane Hirshfield\, writes “some of the most important poetry in 
 the world today\,” according to Naomi Shihab Nye in The New York Times. 
 She is one of American poetry's central spokespersons for concerns of the 
 biosphere. She is a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and 
 the founder of Poets For Science in conjunction with the 2017 March for 
 Science in Washington D.C. Hirshfield is the author of several books of 
 essays and translations and nine award-winning collections of poetry\, most 
 recently Ledger (Knopf\, 2020). Her honors include fellowships from the 
 Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the 
 Arts\, The Poetry Center Book Award\, California Book Award\, and others. 
 In 2019 she was elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. \n\n 
 \n\n\n\nKimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poems\, including: 
 Foreign Bodies (W. W. Norton\, 2020)\; Brain Fever (WWN\, 2014)\, and Toxic 
 Flora (WWN\, 2010)\, both collections prompted by science. Honors include a 
 Guggenheim Fellowship\, PEN/Voelcker Award\, Shelley Memorial Prize\, a 
 Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award as well as fellowships from 
 the National Endowment for the Arts and the N.Y. Foundation for the Arts. 
 She has taught in graduate programs at the University of Houston and New 
 York University\, and is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in 
 Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College\, The City 
 University of New York\; she has also taught for literary organizations 
 such as the Fine Arts Work Center\, Cave Canem\, and Kundiman.\n\n 
 \n\n\n\nMeryl Natchez’ fourth book\, Catwalk\, received an Indie Best 
 Book 2020 Award from Kirkus Reviews. She was a finalist for the James Heart 
 Poetry Contest and the Joan Swift Memorial Poetry Award. and Natchez’ 
 work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review\, LA Review of Books\, Hudson 
 Review\, Poetry Northwest\, Tupelo Quarterly\, ZYZZYVA\, and others.
LOCATION:Main Reading Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Anji Brenner":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.gov
CATEGORIES:After Hours, Poetry
CONTACT;CN="Anji Brenner":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.gov
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