The Shape of the World: Poetry and Ecology

  • Robert Bringhurst, poet and translator; Susan McCaslin, poet; Jan Zwicky, poet and philosopher
    Coach House, Green College, UBC
    Thursday, October 26, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow
    in the series
    Green College Writer in Residence: The Arts of Living Now
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  • If imagination can “open us to an ethical sensitivity,” as the philosopher Richard Kearney says, poetry shows us how we can be opened. It reveals how we might be other. What would it be like to be bees overcome by neonicotinoids? What would it be like to be a river contaminated by PCBs or a forest decimated by clearcut? Not only does poetry show us, it provides a critique of ways of thinking that have led to environmental devastation. It can also help us understand interconnectedness, ecological thinking that might bring us closer to wisdom.
     
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When
October 26th, 2017 from  5:00 PM to  6:30 PM
Location
Coach House
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd
Green College, UBC
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada
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