Meg Weston and John Paul Caponigro will share their obsessions with fire and ice in poems and images.

John Paul Caponigro is a pioneer among visual artists working with digital media whose art has been exhibited and collected internationally.  His life’s work is both a call to connection with nature and a call for conscientious creative interaction with our environment during a time of rapid change.  John Paul’s poetry takes us to the most remote landscapes on earth—the Arctic and the Antarctic—to hear his urgent message of understanding our impact on the earth and the call to consciousness.

Meg Weston has been obsessed with volcanoes since the eruption of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland in 1963.  Throughout her life she has traveled, photographed, and written about this connection with the places where Earth reveals its inner core.  In her poetry, she explores her connection to the earth, memory, landscape, and perspectives of time.

With discussion moderated by Kathrin Seitz, Caponigro and Weston will explore the genre of “eco-poetry,” climate change, their similar and different approaches to writing about connection to the earth, and respond to each other’s images and poems.