The Summer Stars Lecture Series presents:
You're Going to Need a Bigger Circle: Expanding the American View of the Climate Crisis
with Bahamian poet and essayist Bernard Ferguson.
Bernard Ferguson is a Bahamian poet, essayist, educator, and a creative writing instructor at The New School. With great luck, their writing has won numerous awards, including the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, and the 92Y Discovery Contest. They've received fellowships and support from NYU’s Global Research Initiative, New York’s Writers in the Public Schools, the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. They and their writing have been featured, published or forthcoming in The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, VICE News, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, and Winter Tangerine, as well as the Best New Poets 2017 anthology, among others. They are currently working on a book of nonfiction, The Climate Sirens (Graywolf, 2023), about Hurricane Dorian, the effects of climate change on Small-Island Developing States, and how centuries of far flung injustices—like colonization, slavery, and numerous inequalities at local and global scales—have come to cause the climate crisis.
The Summer Stars Lecture Series, sponsored by the Lamont Office of the Director, features inspiring speakers whose work focuses on the intersection of our humanity, nature, sustainability, and the Earth. These talks are an exciting opportunity for our campus to come together and engage with diverse perspectives.
