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All This Resinous, Unretractable Earth: An Afternoon with Jane Hirshfield at the NC Arboretum
October 5, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Hellbender Gathering of Poets Presents: An Afternoon with Poet Jane Hirshfield
October 5 @ 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Writing “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York
Times), Jane Hirshfield is one of American poetry’s central spokespersons for
concerns of the biosphere. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim
and Rockefeller Foundations, an NEA, the Poetry Center Book Award, the
California Book Award, long listing for the National Book Award, and finalist
selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A former Chancellor of
the Academy of American Poets, Hirshfield was elected in 2019 into the
American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
In 2017, she founded Poets for Science in conjunction with the first March for
Science in Washington, D.C. The interactive project (hosted at Kent State’s Wick
Poetry Center) has been installed across the country at universities, museums, and
research centers, and, we’re proud to announce, will be on display at the
Arboretum for this event.
Welcome reception at 1:00 pm, ET, followed by reading and book signing at 2:30 pm. Reading & Discussion with poet Jane Hirshfield co-sponsored by the Western North Carolina Arboretum and Malaprop’s Bookstore, WNC Arboretum Educational Center, 20 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC. IN-PERSON ONLY. Free & open to the public, but registration required.
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The Hellbender Gathering of Poets aims to nurture a community hellbent on
finding the words that protect and repair our climate-changed world. Through
an annual festival that celebrates the power of poetry, we welcome writers and
readers alike into a joyful rising—one galvanized by environmental science,
awareness, courage, and hope.
Jane Hirshfield will be part of the inaugural faculty for the Hellbender
Gathering of Poets next year, from October 5 to 11, 2026.
To learn more about this event or the Hellbender Gathering of Poets, please
contact Nickole Brown at hellbenderpoetry@gmail.com.
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