Events and Appearances by Diane Ackerman

2019

APRIL

--23. Brooklyn, NY. "The Universe in Verse." Pioneerworks.

--26-28. Los Angeles. "Timeless Wisdom, Timely Action: Interconnection, Awareness

and Identity," with Dr. Daniel Siegel and Jon Kabat-Zinn

JUNE

--14-18. Homer, AK. Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference. Keynote Presentation, Public Reading,

Luncheon with Q&A, Craft Talk, Receptions.

OCTOBER

-- 26. New York, NY. The Astronomy of Walt Whitman: A Universe in Verse Pop-Up

celebration.Governors Island. 2PM

2020

APRIL

--22-23. Ennystimon, County Clare, Ireland. John O'Donohue Symposium. Public talks and

conversations. I feel honored to receive the first John O'Donohue Poetics of Possibility

Award.

DIANE ON THE SELF

“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.”
DIANE ON LIFE

"The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible,to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day....It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."
DIANE ON NATURE

"There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes."
DIANE ON WONDER

“Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.”

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