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An evening with Ann de Forest, Sterling Duns and Nathaniel Popkin, reading from Ways of Walking

The Schuylkill Falls Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia
presents an evening of readings from contributors to Ways of Walking (New Door Books, 2022), an anthology that asks “is walking a subversive act?”

Featured readers:
Ann de Forest, editor of Ways of Walking; poet, essayist, fiction writer whose work explores our relationship with place.

Dwight Sterling Dunston, aka Sterling Duns, a West Philly-based facilitator, hip-hop artist, educator, and activist who has brought his creativity, care, and compassion to homes, schools, community centers, retirement homes, festivals, and stadiums all over the country and internationally.

Nathaniel Popkin, author of seven books of fiction and non-fiction, and co-editor of the anthology Who Will Speak for America?

Questions, conversation, and a book signing will follow the readings.

Audience will receive the first in a series of Ways of Walking Scorecards — walking scores inspired by the book’s 26 essays

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2023-10-18 22:30
2023-10-18 22:30
2023-10-18 22:30

Hosted by: Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library
Falls of Schuylkill Library, 3501 Midvale Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129, U.S.

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Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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