Poet and Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, Reading from Her New Collection SOFAR. Friday 3 October, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., Somerville Community Growing Center
Thomas King
Friday 3 October, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Rain date: Saturday 4 October, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
The Somerville Community Growing Center
22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA
Co-hosted by Porter Square Books
In SOFAR, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield attends our current ecological and historic moment, her decades-long queer love, a lifetime of work on boats, and her body’s shifting currents with wry yearning and linguistic delight. SOFAR is an acronym for the “sound frequency and ranging channel,” a deep layer of oceanic water that enables sound to travel vast distances, and, drawing upon her deep knowledge and experience of the sea, Bradfield plumbs what can be heard by listening across the vast distances of our lives―within our memories and larger histories, between strangers and beloveds, and to the more-than-human world.
Elizabeth Bradfield’s seven books include SOFAR (forthcoming in August), which includes poems that first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Sun, and Orion; Interpretive Work, which won the Audre Lorde Prize in Lesbian Poetry; Toward Antarctica; and the co-created Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award and a ForeWord Indies Gold Medal. Editor-in-chief of Broadsided and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Liz teaches at Brandeis University and works as a naturalist and field assistant at home on Cape Cod. www.ebradfield.com
Sponsored by the Urban Pastorals project and supported by a Public Humanities/Community Engagement Grant from the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
