2012 Lake Forest Literary Festival

Monday, February 27

• 12:00 p.m.: Literary Festival: Reading by Tahitian artist and writer Rai Chaze
  Join us for a reading by Tahitian artist and writer Rai Chaze, author of Avant la saison des pluies and Vai: la rivière au ciel sans nuages.
• 4:00 p.m.: Literary Festival: Reading by poet Ed Roberson
  Join us for a reading by poet Ed Roberson, author of City Eclogue and To See the Earth Before the End of the World.
• 7:00 p.m.: Literary Festival: Reading by memoirist and environmental prose writer Mark Spitzer
  Join us for a reading by memoirist and environmental prose writer Mark Spitzer, author of After the Orange Glow and Season of the Gar.

Tuesday, February 28

• 12:00 p.m.: Literary Festival: Panel discussion on contemporary ecopoetics
  Panel discussion on contemporary ecopoetics with poets Brenda Iijima and Ed Roberson and critic John Elder, moderated by Professor Joshua Corey
• 4:00 p.m.: Literary Festival: Reading by novelist Lucy Ferriss
  Reading by novelist Lucy Ferriss, author of The Lost Daughter and other works
• 7:30 p.m.: Literary Festival: Reading by Elizabeth Gentry and Kate Bernheimer
  Reading by 2012-2013 Madeline P. Plonsker Emerging Writer in Residence Elizabeth Gentry, to be followed by a reading by fiction writer Kate Bernheimer, author of The Complete Tales of Merry Gold, the children’s book The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum, and editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales.

Wednesday, February 29

• 4:00 p.m.: Literary Festival: Reading by poet Brenda Iijima
  Join us for a reading by poet Brenda Iijima, author of revv. you’ll—ution and If Not Metamorphic and editor of eco language reader
• 7:30 p.m.: Literary Festival: Keynote address by John Elder
  John Elder, environmental critic and author of Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Nature, The Frog Run: Word and Wildness in the Vermont Woods, Reading the Mountains of Home, will deliver the keynote address for the festival