We at WBSC like big thinkers— people whose visions resist tidy categories and easy summations. But damn if it isn’t hard to do these people justice in a quick event blurb.
I’m feeling this way about Joni Tevis, who’s stopping by WBSC this Thursday, October 22 at 7pm to share some of her work. Tevis crafts lovely, thoughtful essays that I also want to call travelogues, and prose poems, and memoirs, and natural histories. Her subject matter is similarly wide-ranging, though they all seem to be investigating some of the same big questions about place and culture and memory.
She’ll read pieces from her 2007 book, The Wet Collection (including a fascinating reflection on a stint spent selling funeral services in Texas), an essay on visiting a demolition derby with her mother, and excerpts from an upcoming book about ghost towns and atomic frontiers.
Check out this recent Orion article to get a feel for her work. Hope to see you Thursday!
Very much! —Miranda
