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Developing a Relationship with Place
​with Cara Benson

Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 7pm on Zoom

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What does it mean to be a human in relationship with nature, especially at a time when the natural world is under extreme duress? What does the land need from us? And what do we need from “it”? Does the land, as Robin Wall Kimmerer says, love us back? This talk will be part storytelling, part instigation, part contemplation.
 

Cara Benson is a writer and writing mentor dedicated to the wellbeing of the planet. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Boston Review, Orion, The Brooklyn Rail, and selected for Best American Poetry. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and wrote a series on walking in the woods during the pandemic for Best American Poetry website. Currently Cara is at work on a memoir about love, loss, and commitment in the climate crisis. She lives in a former church on the Rensselaer Plateau in the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge Munsee Mohicans. 
 

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