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Kristen Case discusses her recently published transcriptions of Henry David Thoreau's late-life natural history charts in her book Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar (milkweed.org/book/henry-david-thoreaus-kalendar). The talk foregrounds the ways that Thoreau's temporal creativity can help us reimagine our increasingly time-famished lives.
Kristen Case is a poet and scholar. In addition to Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar, she is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe and three books of poetry, most recently, Daphne. She lives in Maine, where she is executive director of The Monson Seminar, a residential program for Pell-eligible and first-generation college students.
Kristen is a guest of Professor Kate Stanley's first-year class, "Climate Conversations: Finding Common Ground for the 21st Century."
The annual, interdisciplinary SASAH Speakers' Series invites nationally and internationally renowned leaders across the arts and humanities to discuss leading topics of concern.
Recorded on 18 November, 2025.
Kristen Case discusses her recently published transcriptions of Henry David Thoreau's late-life natural history charts in her book Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar (milkweed.org/book/henry-david-thoreaus-kalendar). The talk foregrounds the ways that Thoreau's temporal creativity can help us reimagine our increasingly time-famished lives.
Kristen Case is a poet and scholar. In addition to Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar, she is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe and three books of poetry, most recently, Daphne. She lives in Maine, where she is executive director of The Monson Seminar, a residential program for Pell-eligible and first-generation college students.
Kristen is a guest of Professor Kate Stanley's first-year class, "Climate Conversations: Finding Common Ground for the 21st Century."
The annual, interdisciplinary SASAH Speakers' Series invites nationally and internationally renowned leaders across the arts and humanities to discuss leading topics of concern.
Recorded on 18 November, 2025.
