AGU COLLABORATES WITH POETS FOR SCIENCE, EARTHDAY.ORG, AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES FOR A SPECIAL POETRY READING AND ART SHOWCASE ACROSS ALL SOCIAL PLATFORMS
22 April 2024
AGU Press Contact:
Josh Weinberg, [email protected]
In honor of Earth Day, AGU has produced and released a special video highlighting the urgency of climate action and the power of resilience. The video showcases the poem “Dear Human at the Edge of Time,” read by leaders, artists, educators and activists and featuring art from Art x Climate, a project of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) led by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
The video was inspired by and developed in partnership with David Hassler, Director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University; the AGU Science and Society Section; and Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and Jeremy S. Hoffman, editors of the anthology “Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States,” which is a companion to the NCA5.
The video’s readers include the poet January G. O’Neil; Earth Day Network’s regional director Karuna Singh; AGU President Lisa J. Graumlich; Professor Dan Wildcat of Haskell Indian Nations University; and Allyza Lustig, senior staff manager of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s National Climate Assessment (NCA) team.
Released in November 2023, NCA5 is the United States’ preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks and responses. In collaboration with Poets for Science, visitors to https://dearhuman.poetsforscience.org/ are prompted to speak to NCA5 by using words and phrases from the climate report to write their own stanzas.
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