<div dir="auto">You are invited to attend. Please register asap to hold your seat! INTS 1128 March 31, 2025</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Spring Quarter Kick-off Science + Literature event - FREE to attend </div><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="margin:auto;padding:0px;max-width:none;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(57,54,79)"><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;list-style:none;height:40px;display:flex;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:0;display:flex;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><span id="m_-6698017820580339614gmail-listings-root__bookmark-desktop" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;border:medium;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;border:medium;display:inline-block;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="display:inline-block;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><button type="button" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;overflow:visible;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:currentcolor;padding:8px;text-align:left;border-radius:40px;height:40px;width:40px"><i title="" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:24px;width:24px;background-size:contain;display:block;line-height:0;margin:0px auto;vertical-align:middle"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Like Event</span></i></button></span></div></div></div></span></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;opacity:0;display:flex;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><span id="m_-6698017820580339614gmail-listings-root__share-event-modal" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="display:inline-block;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><button type="button" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;overflow:visible;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:currentcolor;padding:8px;text-align:left;border-radius:40px;height:40px;width:40px"><i title="" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:24px;width:24px;background-size:contain;display:block;line-height:0;margin:0px auto;vertical-align:middle"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Share this event</span></i></button></span></span></li></ul></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;width:1194px;display:flex;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(57,54,79)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px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;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">Donika Kelly</strong></strong>, author of<span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">The Renunciations</em></em><span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span>and<span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">Bestiary</em></em>.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,114,135)">Limited free copies of<em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span>Meltwater</em></em><span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span>will be available at the event, first come, first served. The program will be followed by a book signing.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,114,135)">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.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><div style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:0.8125em;line-height:1.6667;font-weight:400;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji";font-style:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><div style="font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji""><div style="font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji""><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6667;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji""><strong style="font-weight:bolder;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection</strong><br><strong style="font-weight:bolder;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">Finalist for the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award</strong><br><strong style="font-weight:bolder;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">Finalist for the 2024 Minnesota Book Award</strong><br><strong style="font-weight:bolder;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">Longlisted for the Julie Suk Award</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6667;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji""><strong style="font-weight:bolder;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">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.”</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6667;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">“Once there were oarfish, opaleyes, olive flounders. Once the oxbows were not overrun with nitrogen.” Part requiem, part bedtime story, <em style="font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">Meltwater</em> 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? </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6667;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">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.”</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6667;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">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—<em style="font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">Meltwater</em> is both vindication and balm.</p></div></div></div><div style="font-size:0.8125em;line-height:1.6667;font-weight:400;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji";font-style:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><div style="font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji""><div style="font-weight:bold;float:left;padding-right:0.5em;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">ISBN</div><div style="padding-right:0.5em;font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","segoe ui symbol","noto color emoji"">9781639551019</div></div><div style="font-family:gothamssm,system-ui,-apple-system,"segoe ui",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,"noto sans","liberation sans",sans-serif,"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e-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">Wilder</em></em>,<span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">Redmouth</em></em>, and, most recently,<span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">Meltwater</em></em>, 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.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">Donika Kelly</strong></strong><span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span>is the author of<span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">The Renunciations</em></em>, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and<span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">Bestiary</em></em>, 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<span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">The New Yorker</em></em>,<span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">The Atlantic</em></em>,<span style="font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">The Paris Review</em></em>, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica N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