SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Performing Arts Center announces “American Wildflowers,” the next event in its WAMC@SPAC series, will be held at 5 p.m. on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22 in the Nancy DiCresce Room at The Pines@SPAC facility.
The event will be hosted by WAMC’s Joe Donahue and feature a conversation with Susan Barba and Leanne Shapton about their new book American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide. A book signing will follow the conversation.
American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide is a curated collection of poems, essays and letters from the 1700’s through today that features a diverse array of authors and focuses on wildflowers and their place in our culture and natural world.
Susan Barba is the author of the poetry collections Fair Sun (2017) and geode (2020). Her poems have appeared in the New York Review of Books – where she works as an editor, Poetry, the New Republic, and translated into Swedish, German, Romanian, and Armenian.
Leanne Shapton is an artist, writer, and publisher. Her illustrations appear on multiple book covers, including Women in Clothes, a collaborative project with Sheila Heti and Heidi Julavits, and her own Swimming Studies. She is the art editor at the New York Review of Books.
WAMC@SPAC is free to attend, however seating is limited. Visit spac.org to register in advance.
