Friday, 29 Mar 2013
Exploration, Empire and Environmental Justice
Poets Elizabeth Bradfield and Sherwin Bitsui will discuss the political implications as well as the ethics and responsibilities of exploration and resource management in a postcolonial world. Part of the 9th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination: The Future of Water.
Flood Song
Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two books of poetry, Shapeshift and Flood Song, a recipient of a 2010 PEN Open Book Award and an American Book Award. He is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. The 9th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination: The Future of Water