Poetry Book Club In-Person
Join us for Poetry Book Club! This month we will discuss Meltwater by Claire Wahmanholm.
Copies of this title will be available to pick-up at the Downtown Library's Information Desk beginning on December 5th.
We will meet in the Conference Room from 5:30-7:00PM on Thursday, February 5th. The first hour will be dedicated to discussion with the last 30 minutes reserved for writing exercises (optional).
About this Book:
“In Claire Wahmanholm’s Meltwater, ‘the world’ means entanglement. In these poems, things pour through one another; even thinkings pour through one another, via the melting form of the erasure. There is no outside to the book’s ecology, and nothing to be considered in isolation: alphabets and glaciers; human love and human loss, human folly and human violence; animal continuity and species devastation; hairdryers and zygotes. We are inescapably permeated by the everything that is ‘us’: water, ice; land; animal, mineral, vegetable beings and their ways of making meaning; human beings and human ways of making meaning. When Wahmanholm writes, with others before her, that ‘you are grass,’ I know it.”—Éireann Lorsung
- Date:
- Thursday, February 5, 2026
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Arizona Time (change)
- Location:
- Downtown Library Conference Room (Capacity 10)
- Library:
- Downtown Library
- Audience:
- Adults Seniors
- Categories:
- Book Discussions and Author Talks