Poetry reading
In Bill McKibben's classic book, The End of Nature, he writes that "An idea, a relationship, can go extinct, just like an animal or a plant. The idea in this case is 'nature,' the separate and wild province, the world apart from man to which he adapted, under whose rules he was born and died."
McKibben's words provoked national discussion of catastrophic climate change and challenged a generation of American artists and writers to address the consequent change in our world of ideas.
As part of the exhibition, The End of Nature, poets Nan Fry, Judith McCombs, and Bernard Welt read from their work and discuss how American environmental writers have inspired them and shaped their own ideas on the fragility of the natural world, our increasing encroachment upon it, and the unthinkable possibilities of a post-natural world.
Free
Saturday, April 19 at 2 pm
The Gallery at Warehouse
1017-1021 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Judith McCombs'
work has appeared in Calyx,Nimrod (a Neruda Award),
Poet Lore, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Potomac Review (Poetry
Prize), Prairie Schooner, Prism, Sisters of the Earth,
and elsewhere. She has held NEH and Canadian Senior Embassy
Fellowships, and Michigan and Maryland Arts Awards. The
Habit of Fire: Poems Selected and New (Word Works 2005)
is her seventh book.
Nan Fry is the author of a book of poetry, Relearning the Dark (Washington Writers Publishing House) and a chapbook of translations, Say What I Am Called (Sibyl-Child). Her poems have appeared on posters in the transit systems of Washington, DC and Baltimore as part of the Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion Program and in anthologies such as Cabin Fever (The Word Works, Inc.), Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast (Norton), and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's Press).
Bernard Welt is the author of Serenade (Z Press) and has written poetry and fiction for art catalogues, including Splat! Boom! Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2003), Raymond Pettibon: A Reader (Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, 1998), and Songs (Hemphill Gallery, 2002), a collaboration with the photographer Colby Caldwell. “I stopped writing poetry . . .,” originally published in the Antioch Review, appeared in The Best American Poetry 2001 and was selected by a reader poll at poets.org as the best American poem of the year 2000. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Writing.
JS Adams: Silent Scroll :Water
Peter
Wood: Just Fish
Pat Goslee: Wilt
