Rapture in the Earth: Visions of Nature, Animals, and Spirit

Speaker:

Brenda Peterson

17 Feb 2008

8:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Brenda Peterson is the author of three novels, one of which, Duck and Cover, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She began her career working for The New Yorker and then relocated to the Pacific Northwest. Her nonfiction includes Living by Water, Nature and Other Mothers, and Sister Stories. She also coedited, with Linda Hogan, the anthologies Intimate Nature: The Bond between Women and Animals and The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Peterson's articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Sierra, Orion, and Utne Reader. She will speak and show slides from her new work Raptured: Seal Sitting in the End Times and her memoir, Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals. Part of the 4th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.