ORGANIZER: Ruth Nolan
CONTACT: runolan@aol.com
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Ruth Nolan, M.A.
Professor of English @ College of the Desert
California desert poet, writer, editor, conservationist & scholar
editor: No Place for a Puritan: the literature of CA’s deserts (Heyday 2009)
SAVE THE DESERT!
College of the Desert creative students and friends will read “SAVE THE DESERT- WHY THIS PLACE MATTERS!” original poems for a “live” reading that will be filmed, poet by poet in individual film clips, against a backdrop of California desert photographs taken at stunning and irreplacable, one-of-a-kind locations through the Mojave Desert. We’ll showcase spoken word, haiku, pantoums, poems about why the desert matters to us – all of us – and hope to transform global perception of this region as a desolate wasteland into one of urgent, and active, protection against unprecedented environmental threats that put our remaining desert wildlands into the brink of ecologic destruction – in part due to renewable energy plans to turn the CA deserts into a massive solar/wind technology zone in the very near future. Visit our blog site after Sept 27 for the film clips of our reading! And don’t forget: love the desert along with us, and help us save our world’s iconic Mojave Desert!
100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE
SAVE THE MOJAVE DESERT READING
takes place LIVE on
Tuesday, Sept 27, 2011
7:30 pm, Liberal Arts 13
College of the Desert, 43-500 Monterey Avenue, Palm Desert CA
contact: Ruth Nolan, runolan@aol.com for more information
JOIN US LIVE if you are in the Palm Springs/Joshua Tree, CA or surrounding areas…
OR
SUBMIT YOUR CALIFORNIA DESERT POEM TO US!!!
We’ll post your desert poem, along with ours, to this site, after our reading takes place on Sept 27, 2011. We’re going to use our blog site to upload all desert poems read on the evening of the 27th, as well as any poems submitted to us for inclusion by anyone around the globe, in any language you choose! We will also upload VIDEO FOOTAGE of our reading to this site, with a backdrop of stunning California desert photos.
SAVE THE DESERT!!!! For more information on how you can get involved, contact Ruth Nolan, California Desert Advocate & Conservationist, Scholar & Writer
photograph: the end of the day, Ward Valley, Mojave Desert, CA, 13th Victory Celebration against nuclear waste site…photograph copyright (c) 2011 by Ruth Nolan may not be reprinted without consent.