The Merwin Conservancy is delighted to present The Green Room, the first in a dynamic new series of literary salons that brings the values of the Conservancy into the community through literature, art, and nature.
The Green Room makes it debut on August 31, 2013 at Fort Faught Studio, 200 Kaluanui Road, Makawao (behind Hui No’eau) from 6:30 pm – 9:00pm. The salon is pleased to present Alexander Maksik reading from his latest novel A Marker to Measure Drift.
With his critically acclaimed debut novel, You Deserve Nothing, Alexander Maksik established himself as a mature, confident voice in fiction. His second novel A Marker to Measure Drift affirms his stature as one of the most inventive and daring writers at work today. The novel, visceral and hypnotic, tracks a woman’s journey from the horrors of Charles Taylor’s Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a Greek island, where she must grapple with a haunted past and find a way back into human society. It’s beautiful, lacerating and impossible to put down. Maksik is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his writing has appeared in Harper’s, Tin House, Harvard Review, The New York Times Magazine, Salon and Narrative Magazine, among others and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is currently on an extensive book tour garnering critical praise and deservedly earned laudatory attention along the way.
The Green Room salon evening will also feature a photography exhibition by Daniel Sullivan. Daniel is a Maui-based photographer obsessed with the essence and spirit of ancient cultures and civilizations. His work seeks to preserve and demonstrate the dignity, vibrancy and wisdom of deep culture before it vanishes. His quest has taken him, among other places, to India, Afghanistan and Ethiopia. His latest project is the hiking of the ancient King’s Trail, built during the reign of Pi’ilani, here in Maui, all the while documenting with his camera the beauty and the mystery of this eroding chapter in history.
Also on offer will be live music and performance, delicious pupu, and engaging company.
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The Merwin Conservancy was founded in 2010 to preserve the living legacy of poet laureate W.S. Merwin, his home and palm forest on Maui, for future study and retreat for botanists and writers. Additionally, The Conservancy’s mission is to engage the community in discussion of the values related to the life and work of W.S.Merwin, from the environment to the arts, through community events and media.