This is your reminder that The Dead Zoo film and reading is tomorrow, Tuesday, October 22! Join us from 6:30 – 7:30, at DePaul’s Cortelyou Commons (2324 N. Fremont Street).
A 20-minute film based on Prof. Chris Green’s sonnet crown The Dead Zoo (poems from the perspective of endangered or extinct animals, plants, and places) will play silently while other poets help him read the sonnets. This will be followed by a conversation with Environmental Science Prof. Liam Heneghan about poetry, climate change, and mass extinction.
The poets who will read include cin salach, Tony Trigilio, Josh Corey, Mike Puican, John McCarthy, and Patty McMillen, as well as DePaul professors Mark Arendt, Mark Turcotte, and Richard Jones. Free broadsides of the sonnet “Rice” will also be available, featuring a beautiful drawing by Rachel Robbins.
See below for a schedule of the evening!
Event Schedule:
I. Introduction by Rhianna Herd (Campus Sustainability Coordinator)
II. Chris Green introduces The Dead Zoo
III. Mark Neumann introduces the film
IV. Poems and Readers
- “American Bison”—Chris Green
- “Amur Leopard”—Mike Puican
- “Rice”—Lydian Green
- “Javan Rhino”—Mark Neumann
- “David Buckel”—John McCarthy
- “Red Wolf”—Carol Marin
- “Siberian Tiger”—cin salach
- “Coral Reef”—Mark Arendt
- “Right Whale”—Dina Elenbogen
- “Polar Bear”—Lexa Murphy
- “Giraffe”—Don Mosely
- “Darwin’s Finch”—Patricia McMillen
- “Darwin Fox”—Dustin Goltz
- “Brown Bear”—Calliope Green
- “Savanna Elephant”—Mark Turcotte
- “Mountain Gorilla”—Jason Zingsheim
- “African Lion”—Tanya Palmer
- “Honeybee”—Josh Corey
- “Common Dolphin”—Liam Heneghan
- “Eremocine Man”—Richard Jones
V. Conversation with Liam Heneghan
VI. Q&A