Join us for our Nature Up Book Club, a great reading and discussion group that explores the intersection of social justice and the environment. November’s discussion group will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 7:30-8:30pm on Zoom. Learn more and register on our Nature Up Book Club page!

November’s Book:

river woman
by Katherena Vermette

Award-winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action.

Divided into four sections, and written in her distinctively lean and elegantly spare style, where short lines belie the depth within them, river woman explores Vermette’s relationship to nature ― its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history. Here is a poet who is a keen observer of an environment that is both familiar and otherworldly, where her home is alive with the sounds and smells of the land it grows out of, where “Words / transcend ceremony / into everyday” and “Nothing / is inanimate.”