Join us on for our next Myco Book Club discussion as we dive into a marvelous new tome of poetry, Mycocosmic by Lesley Wheeler (available on Kindle starting 2/26/2025, at the publisher, or at your local NYC independent bookstores!)

When:  Wed. 3/19*, 6:30-8:30pm (* should we get lucky with early Spring warm weather, we will meet outdoors instead on Sat 3/22, 3-5pm in a NYC public garden. Details confirmed closer to the meeting date.)

Where:  Member’s home in Manhattan, address emailed to confirmed RSVPs

What:  BYOB(ook + Beverage) + snack of choice

Mycocosmic offers intricately woven spell poems—prayers, hexes, charms, and invocations—that call for transformation. A parent’s death gives Wheeler the freedom to reveal difficult truths about family violence and her sexuality; a midlife mental health crisis transforms her sense of self. Incantatory language channeled through a wide variety of forms—including free verse, litany, sonnets, the bref double, the golden shovel, and the villanelle—empowers these shifts. As Merlin Sheldrake writes in Entangled Life, “Mycelium describes the most common of fungal habits, better thought of not as a thing but as a process: an exploratory, irregular tendency.” Poetry is rooted in real and imagined communities and conversations. Mycocosmic demonstrates how interdependence binds us together.

Seating is limited so please email Maya Han at culture@newyorkmyc.org to RSVP or if any questions.

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