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Wedding of the Foxes: Antidotes for Despair in a Time of Crisis

Speaker:

Katherine Larson

Time

Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025 at 7:00 pm

Location

2630 Memorial Union

Co-Sponsors:
  • Pearl Hogrefe Fund
  • English Department
  • MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)

From celebrated poet and ecologist Katherine Larson, an elegant collection of lyric essays that embraces fractures, contradictions, and the interconnectedness of life on Earth.

Larson is a poet, essayist, molecular biologist, and field ecologist. Her debut collection of poems, "Radial Symmetry", was selected by Louise Glück as winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, she has been published in numerous literary journals including "Poetry", "Orion", and "AGNI". Larson is active with organizations and artists dedicated to conservation and environmental education in the Gulf of California.

The University Book Store will be onsite selling "Wedding of the Foxes: Essays" at the event.

This lecture recording can be found on the Available Recordings page approximately two business days after the event and will remain accessible for three weeks.