Upcoming Events
Thursday, May 24, 7:30 pm
OSU Valley Library Rotunda
Sandra Alcosser, poetry reading and conversation
cosponsored with the OSU Visting Writers Series
Sandra Alcosser will read at OSU at the conclusion of her writer-in-residency for the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. Sandra has published seven books of poetry, including A Fish To Feed All Hunger and Except By Nature, which have been selected for the National Poetry Series, the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award, the Larry Levis Award, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry, and the William Stafford Award from Pacific Northwest Booksellers. She is the National Endowment for the Arts’ first Conservation Poet for the Wildlife Conservation Society and Poets House, New York, as well as Montana’s first poet laureate and recipient of the Meriam Award for Distinguished Contribution to Montana Literature. She founded and directs the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at San Diego State University each fall, and is, or has been, a member of the faculty at University of Michigan, University of Montana, and Pacific University and a writer-in-residence in Glacier National Park and Central Park, New York. She received two individual artist fellowships from NEA, and her poems have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.
Resources
Kathleen Dean Moore video now on-line:
Spring Creek's director, Kathleen Moore gave this talk, " To Save the Future: New Alliances of Science and Ethics" in the OSU Geosciences Winter Seminar Series: Earth System Science for a Healthy Planet, in January, 2010
Vandana Shiva’s lecture video now available on-line:
Vandana Shiva spoke at OSU in October, 2009 as the final speaker in our symposium "Earth Democracy: Women, Justice, and Ecology."
the Spring Creek Project Mission:
The challenge of the Spring Creek Project is to bring together the practical wisdom of the environmental sciences, the clarity of philosophical analysis, and the creative, expressive power of the written word, to find new ways to understand and re-imagine our relation to the natural world.
