Pax-salon Mailing List: Salon (Poetry of Richard Blanco)

[Patty Guerrero (pattypax]

HI,  Just another reminder that this Tuesday,  Feb 22,  we will read the poetry 
of Richard Blanco.   Mr. Blanco is the poet chosen for Barack
Obama's 2nd Inauguration.  The is the first gay and first Hispanic to be given 
this honor.   Poets can tell us that the impossible, the unimaginable and the 
unthinkable can happen.  Blanco's poems radiate this.  


Feb. 29, we will be honored to have as our guest, William Souder, author of the 
book,  On a Farther Shore: The LIfe and Legacy of Rachel Carson.   Rachel 
Carson was a visionary who wrote the book, Silent Spring, which warned us all 
about the dangers of pesticides and chemicals and what they can do to our 
world. 
  
From Souder's book:  "Carson said that before the attack on Hiroshima, she had 
doubted that nature could ever need protection from man.  
The world changed---slowly, of course- -but certain of its features seemed 
immutable: the advance and retreat of the great oceans over eons, the daily 
ebbing and flooding of the tides, the uncountable mass migrations of the birds 
and fish.  These things and many more seemed beyond the reach of human 
influence.  Until, they weren't.  The earth, Carson said, was nothing if not a 
water world that was now growing parched."  

Thanks---Hope to see you.

Patty