A Gathering of Poets and Plants

Join us for a poetry reading as three local writers celebrate the wonderful world of plants through poetry. K Prevallet will read a collection of poems on medicinal plants from her recent book A Varied and Tender Multiplicity. Chloe Garcia Roberts will read her prose poem, “To the Heart’s Forest She Fleeth,” about the connection between motherhood and trees. And Gillian Osborne will read a selection of plant-based poetry as well as essays from her book Green Green Green, a collection that exists at the intersection of habitats, horticulture, and history. The readings will take place in the Bradley Rosaceous Collection on the grass, so bring a blanket or lawn chair! If the forecast calls for rain, we will move to the Hunnewell Visitor Center. Accessibility: This is a stationary program that takes place on mowed grass. Audience: This program is geared towards adults. Inclement weather policy: If the forecast calls for rain, this program will move indoors into the Hunnewell Lecture Hall. — KPrevallet is the author of six books of poetry and several edited collections including A Helen Adam Reader (National Poetry Foundation). Recent essays and reviews appear in The Harvard Review, The Fortnightly Review, Guernica, and Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry (MIT Press.) She lives in Gloucester, MA where she is co-director of residencies at the T.S. Eliot House. Chloe Garcia Roberts is a poet and translator from the Spanish and Chinese. She is the author of Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology and a book of poetry, The Reveal, which was published as part of Noemi Press’s Akrilika Series for innovative Latino writing. Her work has appeared in such publications as the Yale Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and the Kenyon Review. She lives outside Boston and works as deputy editor of Harvard Review, translation editor for the Harvard Library Bulletin, and as a lecturer of poetry at MIT. Gillian Osborne is a multi-genre writer and educator, trained as a poet and scholar of 19th-c. American and environmental literature. She is the author of a book of essays, <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nightboat.org_book_green-2Dgreen-2Dgreen_&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&amp;r=eHpPREFFMuFd76O2i4qwEawa_U95MySVCAjUcQ1Hsqo&amp;m=DBKV18baiq2WvV4ERNPvtFs4YHps7Np0nvBqOpHlJm5frvAMklNt1x0Pr085pWvB&amp;s=T9zEiyKLTdR8ROncxPLRkfhNPbVRM4MtCx8ffJ4XZMc&amp;e=">Green Green Green</a> (Nightboat, 2021), a chapbook of poems and drawings, basic research (oxeye, 2023), and co-editor of Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field (Iowa UP, 2018). She designs curriculum for educational projects connected to the PBS TV series, Poetry in America, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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