Please join me on Oct. 6, 2021 at 7 p.m. EDT for the launch of Dear Specimen, a 2020 National Poetry Series winner selected by Kwame Dawes. “These poems engage the most critical question humans have ever faced–and do it from the wellsprings of passion and grace that are the best thing about our species.”–Bill McKibben.
Betsy Sholl, former Poet Laureate of Maine will join me for a Virtual Reading and Conversation. The event is co-hosted by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and Print Bookstore in Portland, Maine. Juxtaposing a profound sense of intimacy with the vastness of geological time, Dear Specimen offers a climate-conscious critique of the human species—our search for meaning and intimacy, our capacity for greed and destruction. Dear Specimen is an extended love letter and dire warning, not only to the daughter its speaker leaves behind but to all of us.