NEW NATURE: REWRITING PLACE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

Split Rock Review celebrates nine years of publishing literature and art that centers on place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. Four featured authors published by Split Rock Review will read and discuss how their work explores place and complicates the traditions of nature poetry in the Anthropocene. Crystal S. Gibbins, founder and editor of Split Rock Review, will introduce and moderate. A brief Q&A session will follow the reading.

MODERATOR: 

Crystal S. Gibbins is the founder and editor of Split Rock Review and Split Rock Press, editor of the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment, and author of Now/Here, winner of the 2017 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. Her poetry and comics have appeared in Coffee House Writers Project, Hobart, North American Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.

PANELISTS: 

Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ and the founder of both rinky dink press and. She is the recipient of a 2020 Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and the director of the therapeutic poetry nonprofit, Revisionary Arts.

Jen Karetnick is the author of 10 poetry collections, including The Burning Where Breath Used to Be and Hunger Until It's Pain (forthcoming). Co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she works as a lifestyle journalist, co-author of Dishtillery newsletter, and trade book author.

Rachel Morgan is the author of the chapbook, Honey & Blood, Blood & Honey. She was a finalist for 2017 National Poetry Series Contest and recipient of a grant to the Vermont Studio Center. She teaches at the University of Northern Iowa and is the Poetry Editor for the North American Review.

Wendy Oleson is the author of two award-winning chapbooks, Please Find Us and Our Daughter & Other Stories. Her recent work appears in Denver Quarterly, Passages North, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. Wendy serves as the Managing Editor of Split Lip Magazine and Associate Prose Editor for Fairy Tale Review.

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Featured readings are preceded by a creative writing open mic. Bring your best five minutes of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction to share.

7:00: Open Mic

8:00: Featured author Crystal S. Gibbins.

This event is free and open to the public.

Final Thursday Reading Series is a collaboration of Final Thursday Press, the Hearst Center for the Arts, and the University of Northern Iowa.

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Regreen: Writing Place & Nature Poetry

Place matters and plays an indelible role in the way we perceive and come to understand each other and the world around us. Crystal S. Gibbins will discuss what it means to write about place, read new and selected poems from Now/Here (Holy Cow! Press), and explore how that writing complicates traditional nature poetry. As the editor of Split Rock Review and poetry anthologies, she will offer writing/publishing advice and what she looks for in submissions. A short Q&A will follow.

Location: Lawrence University Warch Campus Center in the Nathan Marsh Pusey Room.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information about this event, visit Fox Cities Book Festival.

Crystal S. Gibbins will read new and selected poems from Now/Here at Winona State University. A short Q&A will follow the reading.

The reading will be held in the Anthenaeum, which is located in the WSU Darrell Krueger Library.

This event is free and open to the public.

Out of the Woods Winery will be hosting a unique “Paper to Wall" showcase and reading. Local poets were invited to submit their work, which will then be shared with visual artists for interpretation.

The reading begins at 5:45pm. Appetizers and wine will be provided at the event. This is a private event.

Artwork and poetry will be on display at the winery’s gallery from August 29 - November 23.

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The poetry collections by Crystal S. Gibbins and Michelle Menting explore and complicate the traditions of nature poetry. The poets will read from their books and, as editors of Split Rock Review, offer what they look for in submissions of contemporary nature poetry during the anthropocene.

This event is scheduled in the Waterford Room at St. Brendan’s Inn

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Split Rock Review celebrates the release of Waters Deep, an anthology of Great Lakes poetry, co-edited by Crystal S. Gibbins and Michelle Menting. Come listen to a diverse group of contributing poets read from Waters Deep and discuss how they’ve been inspired by the Great Lakes and the woods, watersheds, hills, bluffs, iron and copper ranges, snow belts, rustbelts, and communities that surround them. From layers of history and human culture to natural landscapes and built environments, the voices, perspectives, and styles of the poets featured in Waters Deep are as varied and powerful as the lakes themselves. A Q&A session will follow the reading.

This event is scheduled in Meeting Room 7 at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay, WI.

Poetry Readers: Milton J. Bates, Janna Knittel, Issa M. Lewis, Rachel Morgan, M. Bartley Seigel, Phillip Sterling, Emily Stoddard, Connor Yeck

Event Moderators: Crystal S. Gibbins, Michelle Menting, Casey Thayer

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