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.

Join us for a reading by poet Ed Roberson, author of City Eclogue and To See the Earth Before the End of the World.

Join us for a reading by memoirist and environmental prose writer Mark Spitzer, author of After the Orange Glow and Season of the Gar.

Reading by novelist Lucy Ferriss, author of The Lost Daughter and other works

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.

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

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