BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Extinction Rebellion Boston//Action// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:[SOLIDARITY] Environmental & Climate Justice Poetry Workshop DTSTART:20240229T000000Z DTEND:20240229T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T152333Z UID:1748@https://xrboston.org CREATED:20260425T152333Z DESCRIPTION:Event details: https://xrboston.org/action/solidarity-climate- justice-poetry-workshop/\n\nOn Wednesday\, February 28\, 2024\, at 7:00pm\ , The Brookline Village Library will present I Say the Sky: Poetry\, the N atural World\, the Climate Crisis\, and Connection with Boston-based poet\ , environmental activist\, and mindful writing teacher Nadia Colburn\, Ph. D. \n\nIn this interactive reading and writing workshop\, Nadia will read from her new poetry collection\, I Say the Sky (University Press of Kentuc ky 2024)\, offer short guided meditations and writing prompts\, and lead a n interactive discussion on how to create bridges between poetry and envir onmental and social engagement. \n\nNadia will consider the following ques tions: How can poetry be a way for us to come into greater awareness of th e world around us? How can poetry hold both the grief and suffering around environmental devastation as well as the wonder and appreciation for all the Earth offers us? What can we learn from the long tradition of nature p oetry\, not only as readers and writers but also as activists? How can po etry help us understand the interrelationship between our inner and outer worlds? How can poetry help us come into more creative vision for ways to take action to address the climate crisis?\n\nThe event is designed to be both restorative and energizing. Anyone interested in poetry\, writing\, a ctivism\, the environment\, and more\, will enjoy this program.\n\nTake ho me resources to deepen your connection to poetry as well as new ways to ge t involved in environmental action.\n\nAdmission is Free.\n\nBrookline Vil lage Library is located at 361 Washington Street\, Brookline\, MA 02445. L earn more about this event on its webpage: [https://www.brooklinelibrary.o rg/events/event/unavailable-153/]\n\nFor questions about the event\, pleas e contact Brookline Village Library at 617-730-2370.\n\nABOUT NADIA COLBUR N\n\nNadia Colburn is the author of poetry books I Say the Sky and The Hig h Shelf\, and her poetry and prose have appeared in more than eighty publi cations\, including the New Yorker\, American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Revie w\, Spirituality & Health\, Lion's Roar\, and the Yale Review. She holds a PhD in English from Columbia University and is the founder of Align Your Story Writing School\, which brings traditional literary and creative writ ing studies together with mindfulness\, embodied practices\, and social an d environmental engagement. She lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, with her husband and two children. Find her at nadiacolburn.com\, where she off ers meditations and free resources for writers.\n\nABOUT I SAY THE SKY\n\n I Say the Sky by Nadia Colburn. In poems at once profound and accessible\, Nadia Colburn finds splendor and astonishment in a natural world—and a human world—that is deeply troubled yet still majestically beautiful. Bo th elegy and celebration\, I Say the Sky addresses some of the most challe nging aspects of human existence\, from childhood trauma to environmental devastation\, and discovers\, in unexpected and clear-sighted ways\, wisdo m\, wonder\, and peace.\n\nColburn's brilliant second book charts a journe y to meet the self. From girlhood to parenthood\, loss to discovery\, in p oems that sing\, the book explores how meaning is made. Claiming the femal e voice from silence\, the poems find their grounding in the body and achi eve rootedness and hope.\n\nI Say the Sky is a meditative and ultimately i nspiring book that will be savored by seasoned readers as well as those ne w to poetry.\n\nThe book has been endorsed by a wide range of noted poets\ , writers\, and thinkers.\n\nCamille T. Dungy writes of the collection\, “From the opening poem and on through this glorious book\, Nadia Colburn strikes the difficult balance between celebrating the splendor of the wor ld we inhabit and acknowledging the grief and devastation that none of us can escape. As much a book of love songs as a book of elegies\, I Say the Sky is a heart opening and mind sharpening collection.” \n\nLaynie Brown e writes\, "Nadia Colburn's book I Say the Sky is made of timely and urgen t questions. "What is missing? In the house of my life." With skillful met acognition Colburn approaches the inexpressible\, explores ephemerality\, trauma\, ecological devastation\, and how everything connects to the quoti dian. These poems are wonderfully awake to our unspeakable lives. She writ es: "I want so badly to live sometimes I forget / that I am alive." In thi s collection Colburn couples gravity with gratitude and creates a bright i nfusion of healing and regeneration."\n\nYou can learn more about the book and read other reviews here. LAST-MODIFIED:20240223T205655Z LOCATION:Brookline Village Library ORGANIZER;CN="Extinction Rebellion Boston":MAILTO:outreach@xrboston.org URL:https://xrboston.org/action/solidarity-climate-justice-poetry-workshop / END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR