The Merwin Conservancy Announces 2021 Return of The Green Room with Free Virtual Series
Beginning in April 2021, the Merwin Conservancy will present a virtual reprisal of The Green Room, our arts and ecology salon series that has brought major literary and visionary talent to Hawai‘i in support of the Conservancy’s nonprofit mission. This popular event series went on hiatus in 2020 due to the Covid crisis, and has been reimagined as “The Green Room LIVE,” a free, monthly online event series, supported in part by a grant from the Atherton Family Foundation and underwritten by a group of Green Room Patrons. Registration for all three Spring events, which will be streamed live using the platform Crowdcast, is now available online. To learn more about becoming a Green Room Patron, click here.
This Spring 2021 series explores the connections between poetry and place, and includes presentations from poets and writers from around the world. All registrants will receive a 10% discount code to purchase our presenters’ books at da Shop: books + curiosities, an independent bookseller in Hawai‘i.
The complete series of the Spring 2021 Green Room is as follows:
Joy Harjo and Indigenous Pacific Islander Poets Featured in When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
Wednesday, April 21st, 3:00 PM Hawai‘i Time
A celebration of National Poetry Month with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, editor of native nation anthology When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (W.W. Norton, 2020). Participating poets include ʻĪmaikalani Kalahele, Dan Talaupapa McMullin, Mahealani Perez-Wendt, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Craig Santos Perez, Lehua M. Taitano, and No‘u Revilla.
Jericho Brown
Saturday, May 29th, 2:00PM Hawai‘i
Poet Jericho Brown reads from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) as well as other work, and discusses the role of a person’s “place” in poetry making.
Ross Gay & Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Saturday, June 26th, 2:00PM Hawai‘i
These two award-winning poets and writers join us for readings and conversation about place, poetry, and the wonders of the natural world.
“We are so grateful to be able to produce The Green Room again,” says The Merwin Conservancy’s director of programs and communications Sara Tekula. “Not only will our communities here in Hawai‘i continue to enjoy these events, but we can now extend an invitation beyond these islands. We feel so fortunate to come together with so many brilliant minds, our generous partners, and our growing community in this reimagined program.”
Opportunities to support the series are available through the Conservancy’s Green Room Patrons program. To learn more about the Patrons Program, visit the Conservancy website at: www.merwinconservancy.org/green-room-patrons
Past Green Rooms have included presentations from Tracy K. Smith, Robert Hass, Joy Harjo, Forrest Gander, Bill McKibben, Billy Collins, Richard Powers, Lewis Hyde, Matthew Zapruder, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Edward Hirsch, Lewis Hyde, Matthew Zapruder, Michael Wiegers, Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele, Alexis Rockman, Susan Middleton, Cathy Song, Hope Jahren, Bill Porter aka Red Pine, William Finnegan, Michael Ondaatje, Gary Paul Nabhan, Jane Hirshfield, David Grubin, Susan Casey, Barry Lopez, Naomi Shihab Nye, Terry Tempest Williams, and Dr. Abraham Verghese. For more information, visit: www.merwinconservancy.org/the-green-room.
