Poetry for the Planet: Featuring Poet and Author James K. Zimmerman

Join poet and author James K. Zimmerman for a reading, discussion, and book signing! James will explore themes of climate change and sustainability through the lens of poetry. Focusing on the writing process, eco-poetry as a genre, and the ephemeral nature of humanity, James’s work encourages us to reflect on our place on the planet and our disconnection from it, our destructiveness, our creativity, and much more.

About James K. Zimmerman

A frequent Pushcart Prize nominee, James K. Zimmerman’s work appears in Chicago Quarterly Review, Folio, Lumina, Pleiades, Rattle, Reed, Salmagundi, and elsewhere. His poetry is also featured on websites such as The Poetry Foundation and American Life in Poetry. Author of five books – most recently “The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen,” “Uncertainty,” and “Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread,” he values his neurodivergence as an essential wellspring of his creative inspiration.