I’ll be participating in a reading at COESPACE in Bangor this coming Wednesday, February 12th, at 6 pm. The readings and presentations will center around the recent anthology “A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis”, which includes one of my photographs.
I still haven’t seen the book and I look forward to doing so on Wednesday, as they will have copies for sale. You can read more about the book here.
The press release with more details (and a poster) is below:
BANGOR — "A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis" is a new anthology of work by 65 writers and 27 artists who responded to a call for essays, poetry and art work on the effects of climate change — on their lives, their communities, their families and their futures.
On Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 6 p.m., former Belfast poets laureate Elizabeth Garber and Karin Spitfire and Camden photographer Jim Nickelson will join six other contributors at a reading event in Bangor at COESPACE, 48 Columbia St. Most recently, Spitfire’s poem “Liquidation” received the Outermost Poetry Award, judged by Marge Piercy, and Garber’s memoir "Implosion" was published in 2018. The recipient of many awards for his fine art photography, Nickelson has also served as artist-in-residence at Acadia National Park and Iceland’s Baer Art Center.
The collection is a complex mosaic of voices and visions, of thoughtful appraisals, careful observations, emotional responses, and scientific analyses, highlighting changes along the coast through the eyes of lobsterers and clammers, changes in the woods through the eyes of forest walkers and birders, images of natural beauty and its devastation through the work of poets, painters, photographers, installation artists, and sculptors. Edited by Meghan Sterling and Kathleen Sullivan and published by Littoral Books, the publication has a foreword by Governor Janet Mills.
Other presenters will include Kathleen Ellis, Annaliese Jakimides, Wendy Weiger and more. Singer/songwriter Lindsay Mower will perform new work, with refreshments and books for sale. Proceeds from all sales of the book benefit 350 Maine, a grassroots movement dedicated to solving the planetary climate crisis.
