On Trauma and Healing

Poet: Jericho Brown

Nonfiction Writer: Helen Epstein

Psychiatrist: Judith Lewis Herman

SUNDAY, MAY 2nd, 3:00 pm

The Burren, 247 Elm Street Somerville, Davis Square

Free and open to the public, wheelchair accessible

Poet Jericho Brown (author of Please), nonfiction-writer Helen Epstein (author of Children of the Holocaust) and psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman (author of Trauma and Recovery and Director of Training at Victims of Violence) explore the subject of personal and communal violence and the role that their disciplines play in understanding, confronting and transforming it. Founded and introduced by Nadia Herman Colburn.

Co-sponsors:

Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room

Violence Transformed

Contact Nadia Herman Colburn 617-576-0128 with questions

Poet: Jericho Brown

Nonfiction Writer: Helen Epstein

Psychiatrist: Judith Lewis Herman

SUNDAY, MAY 2nd

The Burren, 247 Elm Street Somerville, Davis Square

Free and open to the public, wheelchair accessible

Poet Jericho Brown (author of Please), nonfiction-writer Helen Epstein (author of Children of the Holocaust) and psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman (author of Trauma and Recovery and Director of Training at Victims of Violence) explore the subject of personal and communal violence and the role that their disciplines play in understanding, confronting and transforming it. Founded and introduced by Nadia Herman Colburn.

Co-sponsors:

Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room

Violence Transformed

Contact Nadia Herman Colburn 617-576-0128 with questions

Continuities Readings & Discussions: Poetry & Ecology
Nadia Herman Colburn, Kevin Goodan, Jorie Graham, Nathaniel Tarn & Ruthann Rudel

In this new series founded and introduced by Nadia Herman Colburn, poets Kevin Goodan, Jorie Graham and Nathaniel Tarn and environmental scientist and activist Ruthann Rudel from the Silent Spring Institute (http://silentspring.org) explore the relationship between poetry and the natural world. Faced with ecological devastation, species extinction, climate change and toxic waste, how does the poetic imagination influence the choices we make and help effect change? Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room <http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/poetryroom.cfm>.

November 7th, 3pm The Burren, 247 Elm Street Somerville, Davis Square. Close to the Red Line T and ample Somerville meter parking.

The event will be held in the back room of the Burren, a family-friendly Irish pub. Children are welcome. Stay after the reading for conversation, drinks and food.

For details, contact  Nadia Colburn 617-576-0128

Continuities; Saturday, October 17th at 2:00 pm in Lowell, MA

Nadia Herman Colburn will introduce a reading and discussion of the poets Afaa Weaver (The Plum Flower Dance, U Pittsburgh Press, 2007), Erica Funkhouser (Earthly, Houghton Mifflin, 2008), and Maggie Dietz (Perennial Fall, U Chicago Press 2006). The poets will read from their work and discuss the relationship between poetry and the natural world. Faced with ecological devastation, species extinction, climate change and toxic waste, how does the poetic imagination influence the choices we make and help effect change?