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Delve Seminar: Richard Powers’ The Overstory and the Nature Writings of John Muir

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

In this Delve seminar, we will compare the ecological writing of Richard Powers and John Muir. Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory, comes to us at a time when concern for preserving natural spaces has exploded into anxiety over the planet’s very future. While grappling with deforestation and global warming in fiction, Powers sees himself as a realist. He asks, “Which is more childish, naïve, romantic, or mystical: the belief that we can get away with making Earth revolve around our personal appetites and fantasies, or the belief that a vast, multi-million-pronged project four and a half billion years old deserves a little reverent humility?” Muir, something of a father for the national parks movement, used an ecological perspective in his stories of adventure and…

$220

Front Porch Sessions at The Alberta Street Pub

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St, Portland

One Host, Three Storytellers, Three Questions and a whole lot of conversations. Please join us as Front Porch Sessions kicks off its first event of the year on September 19th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Alberta Street Pub in Northeast Portland. Get ready to once again make less strangers in the world! Theme: "Back to School" with story tellers: Ezell Watson III Depart in Love.  This is what the name “Ezell” means.  Born and raised in Birmingham Alabama, the product of high school aged parents, I believe “It takes a village.”  My village has been a mobile one, attending college in Virginia and Alabama, and working and living in various villages across the U.S—from the Southeast Panhandle to the Pacific Northwest.  I’ve…

$10