The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m., EDT
Where: Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA
Three writers celebrate the wonderful world of plants through poetry at A Gathering of Plants and Poetry at the Arnold Arboretum. Chloe Garcia Roberts will read her prose poem, “To the Heart’s Forest She Fleeth,” about the connection between motherhood and trees. Garcia Roberts translated Homero Aridjis’s Carne de Dios: A Novel, forthcoming from The University of Press. K Prevallet will read a collection of poems on medicinal plants from her recent book A Varied and Tender Multiplicity. And Gillian Osborne will read a selection of plant-based poetry as well as essays from her book Green Green Green.
This event is free and open to the public.
About Carne de Dios:
In the remote mountains of Oaxaca, the Beatniks have arrived.
María Sabina, the renowned Mazatec healer, spends her days in the small town of Huautla de Jiménez selling produce at the market and foraging under the new moon for the sacred mushrooms that grow near her home—her Holy Children, Carne de Dios, or Flesh of God. But her life changes forever when an amateur mycologist from New York, with a cameraman in tow, visits her to experience for himself the mushroom ceremony, or velada, he knows only from whispers in anthropological records. When he publishes an unauthorized article about his experience in LIFE Magazine 1957, the stage is set for an explosive encounter between the burgeoning international counterculture and the woman who became an unwilling icon of the psychedelic revolution.
