8th Annual Juniper Literary Festival: The World & the Word
The 8th annual Juniper Festival, The World & the Word, will explore the confluence of environmental science and literary art. Poets, essayists, fiction writers, activists, publishers, and scientists will gather to investigate the many ways environmental science and literary art need and nourish one another. Narrative and data, field work and poetic form: how do these transmute and translate one another? What does literary art have to say about the health of the planet? The honey bees? About the great migrations, the resplendent woods? The sustainability of our habits? What effect might literature, and literary artists, have on the world our children inherit?
Schedule of Events
Friday, April 25
1:15 p.m. — Film screening: Atacama, The Flowering Desert; Amherst Cinema Arts Center
2:30 p.m. — Keynote Address: David Gessner, editor of Ecotone, author of Soaring with Fidel; Sick of Nature; and Return of the Osprey; Amherst Cinema Arts Center
4:15 p.m. — Roundtable: Local Solutions, Intentional Living; Emily Dickinson Homestead
8:00 p.m. — Mini Readings by Many: from Pliny to Barry Lopez, Poetry & Prose; Unitarian Church of Amherst
Saturday April 26th
12:30 p.m. — Performance: Seachange: Science, Poetry, & Whale Song: Roger Payne, whale biologist, and Lisa Harrow, actress; Amherst Cinema Arts Center
1:30 p.m. — Magazine & Book Fair Opens, Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts
2:00 p.m. — Roundtable: Activism & Art, Science & the Soul; Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts
3:30 p.m. — Roundtable: Eco-literacy & Environmental Publishing; Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts
5:00 p.m. — Reading: Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older than Words, and Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros; Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts
8:00 p.m. — Reading: Gretel Ehrlich, author of The Solace of Open Spaces; Questions of Heaven; John Muir, a biography; and The Future of Ice; Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts