[Crwt-undergrad-info] March 31 CRWT event

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Monday, March 31
Science + Literature: Eco-Poetics and the Modern Apocalypse

*Featuring Science + Literature–honored author Claire Wahmanholm in
conversation with Donika Kelly*
By *National Book Foundation*
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Date and time
Monday, March 31 · 6 - 7:30pm PDT
Location

CHASS Interdisciplinary Building South
CHASS Interdisciplinary Building South INTS 1128 Riverside, CA 92507
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*Meltwater*

*Meltwater* by *Claire Wahmanholm*—a 2025 Science + Literature Selected
Title—shows at once the fragility, devastation, and beauty of our world and
humans’ existence on it. Join Wahmanholm for a reading and conversation on
eco-poetics as inspiration and rallying cry. Moderated by *Donika Kelly*,
author of *The Renunciations* and *Bestiary*.

Limited free copies of* Meltwater* will be available at the event, first
come, first served. The program will be followed by a book signing.

Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation and the
University of California, Riverside, in collaboration with the Department
of Creative Writing, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences,
Writers Week, and the School of Medicine’s Medical Health & Humanities
Designated Emphasis.

*National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection*
*Finalist for the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award*
*Finalist for the 2024 Minnesota Book Award*
*Longlisted for the Julie Suk Award*

*A haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the
governing body, “the organ and the tissue / and the cell, the membrane and
the organelle.”*

“Once there were oarfish, opaleyes, olive flounders. Once the oxbows were
not overrun with nitrogen.” Part requiem, part bedtime story,
*Meltwater* narrates
the awful possibility of doom as well as the grim temptation to numb
ourselves to it. Prose poems melt into erasures, erasures swell into lush
catalogs. Within this formal ebb and flow, Claire Wahmanholm explores both
abundance and annihilation, giving shape and music to our shared human
anxieties. What does it mean to bring children into a world like this one?
A world where grenades are “the only kind of fruit we can still name”?
Where “lightning can strike over / and over without boredom or belief and
nothing / is saved”? Where losses, both ecological and personal,
proliferate endlessly?

Here, a parent’s joy is accompanied by the gnaw of remorse. And yet,
Wahmanholm recognizes, children bind us to the world—to its missiles and
marvels, to the possibility that there is indeed grace worth “suffer[ing]
the empty universe for.”

If we are going to worry, let us also at least wonder. If we are going to
be seized by terror, let us also be “seized by the topaz sky and the breeze
through it.” A glittering, kinetic testament to vanishing—of biodiversity,
of climate stability, of a sense of safety—*Meltwater* is both vindication
and balm.
ISBN
9781639551019
Publish Date
03/14/2023
Pages
128
Dimensions
8.5 × 6 × 0.25 in
Weight
6.8 oz

*ABOUT THE AUTHORS:*

*Claire Wahmanholm* is the author of *Wilder*, *Redmouth*, and, most
recently, *Meltwater*, which was a finalist for the 2024 Kingsley Tufts
Poetry Award and the 2024 Minnesota Book Award. A 2020 McKnight Writer
Fellow, and the winner of the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize, she
lives in the Twin Cities.

*Donika Kelly* is the author of *The Renunciations*, winner of the
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and *Bestiary*, the winner of the 2015 Cave
Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts
Discovery Award. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a founding member
of the collective Poets at the End of the World. Her poems have been
published in *The New Yorker*, *The Atlantic*, *The Paris Review*, and
elsewhere. She is an associate professor in the English Department at the
University of Iowa.

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