A mini Universe in Verse this October

NOTE: This newsletter might be cut short by your email program. View it in full.   If a friend forwarded it to you and you'd like your very own newsletter, subscribe here — it's free.   Need to modify your subscription? You can change your email address or unsubscribe. The Universe in Verse Book Launch and Show The Universe in Verse was born in 2017 as a charitable festival of wonder: stories from the history of science — the history of our search for truth and our yearning to know nature — told live onstage and illustrated with poems — those emblems of our search for meaning and our yearning to know ourselves — read by beloved artists, writers, and musicians. Year after year, thousands of people gathered to listen, think, and feel together — a congregation of creatures concerned with the relationship between truth and beauty, between love and mortality, between the finite and the infinite. The show is now a book. To celebrate its birth, I bring together a small constellation of luminaries — including poet Marie Howe, musician David Byrne, Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad, cosmologist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander, artists Helga Davis and Debbie Millman, composer and National Sawdust founder Paola Prestini, and actor Lili Taylor (who narrates the audiobook) — for an evening of science and poetry exploring dark matter and radioactivity, fungi and pi, octopus intelligence and the evolution of flowers. There will be music and there will be magic. Join us. DATE: October 4, 2024 TIME: doors 6PM, show 7PM LOCATION: National Sawdust, 80 N 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY >>> TICKETS Peek inside the book here. Forward to a friend/BUY TICKETS/ donating=loving Every month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For seventeen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor makes your own life more livable in any way, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference. monthly donation You can become a Sustaining Patron with a recurring monthly donation of your choosing, between a cup of tea and a Brooklyn lunch.   one-time donation Or you can become a Spontaneous Supporter with a one-time donation in any amount. Partial to Bitcoin? You can beam some bit-love my way: 197usDS6AsL9wDKxtGM6xaWjmR5ejgqem7 Need to cancel an existing donation? (It's okay — life changes course. I treasure your kindness and appreciate your support for as long as it lasted.) You can do so on this page. You're receiving this email because you subscribed on TheMarginalian.org (formerly BrainPickings.org). This weekly newsletter comes out on Sunday mornings and synthesizes what I publish on the site throughout the week. The Marginalian NOT RECEIVING MAIL 47 Bergen Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list   update subscription preferences