Responding to the Natural World: A Conference in Honor of John Knott

Frederick Kensett, Franconia Notch (1871)

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Janisse Ray

Saturday, April 8th
Rackham Building,
East Conference Room

12:00-1:00pm Reading

How Clear-Cut Does It Have to Be?
Language, Community & the Politics of Wholeness

Description:
The fragmentation of landscapes is mirrored in society -- in communities, families & individuals. The most vital challenge we face in the 21st Century is figuring out how to find wholeness despite destruction and fragmentation: how to live well. And what would a good life look like?

Janisse Ray

Publications:
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Milkweed Editions)
Wild Card Quilt (Milkweed Editions)
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land (Chelsea Green Publ. Co.)

Presenters' books will be on sale in Angell Hall. additionally, Emmet Gowin's book will be on sale at UMMA.

Sponsored by: The Office of the Dean of LS&A, The Department of English Language and Literature, The Creative Writing Program,
The Institute for the Humanities, The Program in the Environment, Office of the Dean, Rackham Graduate School and The University of Michigan Museum of Art.