Save the Date!
The Poetry Society of Vermont is pleased to share the following announcement from Sundog Poetry. We hope our members and subscribers will attend this important event.
Autumn is almost upon us, so I’m following up with new information about Sundog Poetry’s upcoming symposium on Environmental Poetry in the Time of Climate Crisis. I hope you’ll attend this important event and encourage your friends and colleagues to attend as well (or bring them with you)!
It would help if you’d go to the link on our website – https://sundogpoetry.org/ecopoetics — and register in advance so we can estimate the number of people who will attend. Below please find a full description of the symposium.
Join us as we explore the necessary intersection between two vital workshops of the intellect and imagination: poetry and science. We live in a time of climate crisis and mass extinction, a time that is both impossible to comprehend and difficult to discuss. It is with this in mind that we have gathered significant voices in the fields of environmental science and poetry, Alison Hawthorne Deming, John Elder, Jody Gladding, Jane Hirshfield, and Nalini Nadkarni, for an afternoon of critical conversation. (John Elder is replacing Bill McKibben, who had to drop out because of a scheduling conflict.) By bringing together poets and scientists, we will demonstrate how the humanities can help translate scientific understanding into cultural meaning and moral imperative. We need every tool at our disposal to face what we must face and continue a conversation that builds community and leads to meaningful action.
This event, held at the Champlain Room at Champlain College on Friday afternoon, October 3, 2025, 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM, will include a moderated panel discussion, a poetry and prose reading, and programming for student environmental groups and writing workshops. We aim to explore how the mutual powers of poetry and science can connect us to the environment, to our obligations to the earth and to the future.
If you have any questions, please contact me or Meg Reynolds (me************@***il.com) for more information.
Yours,
Neil Shepard, Board member, Sundog Poetry
Meg Reynolds, Board president, Sundog Poetry
Full Schedule:
Environmental Poetry in the Time of Climate Crisis
The Champlain Room at Champlain College
Hauke Family Campus Center, 375 Maple St., Burlington, VT
2:00-3:15 PM: Headliner Panel Discussion (Deming, Elder, Gladding, Hirshfield, Nadkarni)
3:15-4:15 PM: Refreshments, Informal Discussion, Book Sales
4:15-5:30 PM: Poetry and Prose readings (Deming, Elder, Gladding, Hirshfield, Nadkarni)
5:30-6:00 PM: Book signings