Poetry Book Club: Meltwater

Date and Time

• Thursday, Feb 5, 2026  5:30pm - 7pm

Location

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Details

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