Ecopoetry readings: Allison Cobb, Stephen Collis, & Brian Teare

November 21, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Korean Studies Auditorium

Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Lecturers Allison Cobb, Stephen Collis, and Brian Teare will read their poetry on Friday, November 21, from 6-8 p.m. in the Korean Studies Center Auditorium (Reception 5-6 p.m.). Their poetry explores ecological themes, including climate change, mining, and environmental disasters. Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 (Chax Press) and Green-Wood (Factory School, 2010). She is at work on a hybrid genre manuscript called Plastic: an autobiography, and she works for the Environmental Defense Fund. Stephen Collis is the author of The Commons (Talon Books 2008; 2014), On the Material (Talon Books, 2010), To the Barricades (Talon Books, 2013), and DECOMP (Coach House, 2013). He attended the 2014 Tar Sands Healing Walk in Alberta and is now writing about walking, resource extraction, and the climate commons. He is a professor of contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University. Brian Teare is the author of four critically acclaimed books—The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, Pleasure, and Companion Grasses. He is an assistant professor at Temple University, and he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Books will be available for purchase from UH Manoa Bookstore.

**NOTE**: On Tuesday, November 18, the poets will lead a campus clean-up outside of Kuykendall Hall (Diamond Head side) in preparation for an ecopoetry workshop on Wednesday, November 19. Meet the poets on Tuesday from 12-1 p.m. and spend an hour picking up trash from the campus, or come to the workshop on Wednesday (3-5 pm, Center for Korean Studies) with your own found plastic object. To register for the workshop, contact Susan Schultz at sschultz@hawaii.edu.


Ticket Information
no tickets; free and open to the public.

Event Sponsor
Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Christina Higgins, (808) 294-0323, cmhiggin@hawaii.edu, http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/index.php/events/dai-ho-chun-lectures/

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