Bates College will host Elizabeth Rush for their annual Otis Lecture entitled, “On Rising: Exertion, activism and art in the age of climate change,” followed by a recpetion at the Bates Museum of Art.
On September 28th, musician and author Dessa will visit The Loft for a discussion with writer and thinker Safy-Hallan Farah.
Booksellers! Join us for a special breakfast with Milkweed Editions poets Ada Limón, William Brewer, and Parneshia Jones.
Sarah Ruhl will be joined by Elizabeth Metzger for a celebration of Max Ritvo, including readings from Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship and The Final Voicemails.
Poet Parneshia Jones (Vessel) will appear alongside acclaimed author and activist Alice Walker (The Color Purple). This conversation will explore the transformative effect of Walker’s life and body of work and honor the profound effect both Walker and her work have had on foregrounding black female experiences, relationships, and narratives.
Poet Parneshia Jones (Vessel) will appear in Words That Matter: A Literary Solon, a reading sponsored by Creative Co-Working and Literature for All of Us, alongside writer Aaron Coleman at the historic Colvin House.
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley will host Fady Joudah, author of Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, as a part of their lunch poems series.
Rice University will host poet Fady Joudah (Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance) for their Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, alongside Carmen Giménez Smith with an on-stage interview moderated by Jasminne Mendez and a book signing to follow.
Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore will visit Tulane University for the inaugural event in the ByWater Institute’s speaker series Future Cities // Future Coasts.
In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Chicago Public Library is pleased to welcome author Elizabeth Rush for a conversation about her new book Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. The conversation will be moderated by NRDC Senior Policy Analyst Rob Moore, whose work focuses on water-related impacts of our rapidly warming climate, including the rising risks of flooding and the effects of sea-level rise.
