To celebrate the publication of the important new anthology Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, co-editor Ruth Nolan and contributors Thea Gavin, Candace Pearson and Lynne Thompson will share poems that highlight what California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia calls “a generous record of California poets’ love and concern for their common world” in his foreword to the book. After the reading, a Q & A panel session will give audience members a chance to gain insight into the poetic processes that brought these poems and this anthology into being.