**12/2025 UPDATE: Please join Lesley Wheeler on 12/18/2025 at 8PM ET for her virtual presentation and book club discussion of Mycocosmic, presented by NAMA. Free for NAMA members. Register here.**

*10/2025 UPDATE: Review of Mycocosmic available in Fall 2025 NYMS newsletter*

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:  Sat. 3/29*, 3-5pm (Rain date 3/30.)

Where: Elizabeth Street Garden

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 (Myco Book Club founder and organizer) at culture@newyorkmyc.org to RSVP or if any questions.

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