Poetry Book Club
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Thursday, Aug 6, 2026 5:30pm - 7pm
Location
Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library
300 West Aspen Ave
Details
Join us for Poetry Book Club! This month we will discuss B/RDS by Beatrice Szymkowiak.
Copies of this title will be available to pick-up at the Downtown Library's Information Desk beginning on June 4th.
We will meet in the Conference Room from 5:30-7:00PM on Thursday, August 6th. The first hour will be dedicated to discussion with the last 30 minutes reserved for writing exercises (optional).
About this Book:
B/RDS endeavors to dismantle discourses that create an artificial distinction between nature and humanity through a subversive erasure of an iconic work of natural history: John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-1838). This process of erasure considers the text of Birds of America as an archival cage. The author selectively erases words from the textual cage to reveal its ambiguity and the complex relationship between humanity and the other-than-human world. As the cage disappears, leaving a space for scarce, lyrical poems, birds break free, their voices inextricably entangled with ours.
To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.
