Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium presents Dan Linehan and Dane Cervine

The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents: Dan Linehan and Dane Cervine

Sunday, April 8, 2:00 p.m. $5.00 Admission
Old Capitol Books, 559 Tyler Street, Monterey
(between Pearl and Munras)

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Theory & Philosophy 34: Henry David Thoreau on Nature

Part of a series of events for National Poetry Month

POSTPONED – now scheduled for May 4th.

Old Capitol Books and the Direct Action Monterey Network are coming together for the thirty-fourth iteration of the Theory & Philosophy Reading Group, working through a mini-series on Environmental Philosophy. At the end of April, we’ll come together to read the poetry and the prose of Henry David Thoreau, whose nature writings were an essential part of the New England Transcendentalist movement.Continue reading “Theory & Philosophy 34: Henry David Thoreau on Nature”

The Isms of March! Thinking Critically about Society Seminar Series Announced!

We’re back at it again with a series of seminars The Isms of March as part of our Thinking Critically about Society series. We’ll be joined by CSU Monterey Bay professors, local poets, and critically thinkers just like you to help tackle some of the different ideologies and theories that we’ve been hearing about.

Friday 9 March – 7pm: What is Anarchism?
Friday 16 March – 7pm: Understanding Neoliberalism
Friday 23 March – 7pm: Reading Marx
Friday 30 March – 7pm: Exploring Primitivism

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The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast – Presentation by author Kim Steinhardt

The Pacific coast is the most iconic region of California and one of the most fascinating and rapidly changing places in the world. Densely populated, urbanized, and industrialized — but also home to wilderness with complex, fragile ecosystems — the coast is the place where humanity and nature coexist in a precarious balance that is never perfectly stable.

The author of The Edge will be in-store to talk about coastal California’s unique natural history, and to tell the stories of the communities which thrive off its resources and beauty.Continue reading “The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast – Presentation by author Kim Steinhardt”