Stonington-Mystic, CT|Featured Event
Pop-Up Paddle Poetry Brings Ocean & Climate Literature to the Mystic River on Earth Day
Event Details
On Wednesday, April 22 from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m., Williams-Mystic college students will perform a live poetry reading from kayaks on the Mystic River beneath the Bascule Bridge.
Part of a Global Ocean Literature course taught by Professor Ned Schaumberg, the event features poems about climate, the ocean, and place in a call-and-response format between kayaks and the shoreline. The performance brings poetry off the page and into the environment it describes.
“It’s one thing to read about the ocean,” Schaumberg said. “It’s another to look down at the water the poem is talking about. The words land differently.”
Free and open to the public. To read more about past pop-ups, click here. Stop by for a quick Earth Day program on the Mystic River!
Williams-Mystic is a one-semester study-away program of Williams College, in partnership with Mystic Seaport Museum, and has been part of the Mystic community since 1977. For nearly 50 years, college students from across the country have come here each semester to study the ocean through science, policy, history, and literature, with hands-on learning in coastal communities and on the water.