Join us on Saturday, September 15, 2:00pm at the Tranquilbuzz Coffee House (112 W Yankie St.) for Just Words! Sharman Apt Russell and Richard Felger will read from their work, followed by an open mic.
Sharman Apt Russell has published a dozen books translated into a dozen languages. She was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing for Diary of a Citizen Scientist (Oregon State University Press, 2014), which also won the WILLA Award and was named by The Guardian as a top ten nature book. Currently, Sharman is working on Within Our Grasp: Feeding the World’s Children for a Better and Greener Future (Pantheon Books, 2019) that combines her longtime interest in the environment with her longtime interest in hunger. Her essays have been published in many magazines, journals, and anthologies. She lives in the Gila Valley of southwestern New Mexico and teaches part-time at WNMU, where she is a professor emeritus, and at Antioch University in Los Angeles. For more information, go to www.sharmanaptrussell.com.
An excerpt of Russell’s writing:
“I walk Sacaton Mesa surrounded by cloud streets, cloud turrets, a small cloud East Asian art museum. This is architecture on the move. A storm builds in the east, and the cloud cliffs grow taller. The prow of a ship crashes into another. Already there is rain over the Mogollon Mountains, the line clear between where water is falling and where it is not. I feel what the Transcendentalists would have called a correspondence. This beauty is not a doorway into something better. This beauty is my other half.”
Richard Felger has conducted research in deserts worldwide and has been active in international conservation. His scientific and popular writings include botany, ethnobiology, sea turtle biology, new food crops, and other fields. One of his strong interests is agricultural independence for arid regions of the world. Please view https://www.desertfoodplants.o
A sample of Richard Felger’s poetry:
WARNING TO POLITICIANS
species yet to evolve will not remember your name
pupfish and polar bears
will not vote for you.
Tranquil Buzz Coffee House(112 W Yankie Street, Silver City) 2-4pm.
