Howard Horowitz is the author of Close to the Ground. His map poems, combining poetry and geology, have appeared in the New York Times and in literary journals. An open mic will follow the reading.
Read your own poems or poems by your favorite poets to celebrate the winter solstice and the holidays.
Mary Makofske will lead a discussion of Eaarth by Bill McKibben, fourth book in our Earthwise series.
Eaarth declares that we have already changed the earth we evolved on, so it will be much less hospitable, and must lower our impact and learn to cope with challenging conditions. Though he summons alarming data and projections, McKibben believes we can build a sustainable future.
Copies available at the Library.
Mary Makofske will lead a discussion of The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood,third book in our Earthwise series.
Speculative fiction about what happens after a plague almost wipes out the human race. Bioengineered new "humans" and God's gardeners try to cope with the results.
Amazon.com says, "By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and easily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive."
Copies available at the Library.
Mary Makofske will lead a discussion of Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte, second book in our Earthwise series.
With an engaging style, Royte measures and then follows her garbage to see where, and how, it's disposed of. In the process, she introduces fascinating facts and people.
Booklist called Garbage Land "downright entertaining."
Copies available at the Library.
Marry Makofske will lead a discussion of Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake. Told in several different voices, this novel vividly depicts the impact of mountain-top coal removal on West Virginians pulled between their intimate connection to their land and their economic dependence on mining.
Copies available at the Library
What is our evolving relationship with our environment? Can we live on Earth withour destroying what supports us? Mary Makofske will present an introdction and overview of our book discussion series "Earthwise." The books to be discussed over the next4 months include: Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake; Garbageland by Elizabeth Royte; The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood; Eaarth by Bill McGibben.
The Friends and Bookends bookshop at the Albert Wisner Public Library will be hosting a Holiday Book Sale on Saturday, December 3, 2011 from 9-3PM. Choose from our collection of bestsellers, holiday books, children"s books, audiobooks, DVDs, CDs, library notecards and tote bags. Most books are $1 or less!
Come learn the fundamentals of drawing with local artist Rob Wright. Please feel free to bring a sample of your drawings! Materials will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own drawing pencils.
