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I Say the Sky: Poetry, the Natural World, the Climate Crisis, and Connection: A Reading and Discus
(Chicago, IL) On Sunday, February 4, 2024, at 3:00pm, The Seminary Co-op Bookstore will present I Say the Sky: Poetry, the Natural World, the Climate Crisis, and Connection with award-winning poets Nadia Colburn and Hila Ratzabi. Nadia and Hila (an Oak Park resident) will read from their collections and engage in a discussion about poetry and the climate crisis.
Poets have long understood the connection between, in the words of Robert Frost, “inner and outer weather.” Today, as human activity is changing the climate and our earth at an unprecedented rate, poetry helps us find our grounding and gives us tools for greater connection, voice, and vision.
Nadia and Hila will consider the following questions: How do we stay grounded in this time of climate crisis? How do we cultivate and nourish a vision of connection and belonging? And how can we find our own voice amidst both the clamoring noise of our public, busy world, and the many forces of silence around us?
Nadia will read from her new collection, I Say the Sky (University Press of Kentucky, 2024), and Hila will lead the discussion and offer some poems from her recent collection, There Are Still Woods (June Road Press, 2022). They will also engage in a dialogue on the ways to create bridges between poetry and environmental and social engagement.
The event is designed to be both restorative and energizing. Anyone interested in poetry, writing, activism, the environment, and more, will enjoy this program.
Take home resources to deepen your connection to poetry as well as new ways to get involved in environmental action.
A Q&A and Book Signing with the Authors will follow.
Admission is Free. RSVPs are recommended but not required. RSVP HERE: https://airtable.com/appAkPEjhwwUOo9j6/shr3lVkaUNQDj5Cuc
Seminary Co-op Bookstore is located at 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637. Learn more about this event on its webpage HERE: https://www.semcoop.com/event/nadia-colburn-i-say-sky-hila-ratzabi
For questions about the event, please contact The Seminary Co-Op Book Store at 773-752-4381 or send an email to [email protected].
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Nadia Colburn is the author of poetry books I Say the Sky and The High Shelf, and her poetry and prose have appeared in more than eighty publications, including the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, 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 writing studies together with mindfulness, embodied practices, and social and environmental engagement. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. Find her at nadiacolburn.com, where she offers meditations and free resources for writers.
Hila Ratzabi is the author of There Are Still Woods (June Road Press, 2022), which won a gold Nautilus Book Award and was a finalist for a National Indie Excellence Award. Her poems have been published widely in literary journals and have been anthologized in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois. Learn more at www.hilaratzabi.com.
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