Northshire Presents: Soup in the Woods with Smokey House Center

Join Northshire and the Smokey House Center for an evening of poetry and prose in celebration of the comforts of nature and home cooking! Two award-winning authors will read from their newest work.

Hannah Fries - A Forest Language

What is crown shyness, and how could a tree be shy? What is heartwood, and what does it have to do with the heart? So often even our scientific terms are rife with surprising etymologies and images that may reveal as much about us humans and our relationship to nature as they do about the things they describe. Words related to trees and forests are no exception.

With a poet’s sensibility, Hannah Fries peels back the layers of these ecological terms, reflecting on their meaning both literally and figuratively, intertwining science and metaphor.

"A Forest Language is an exquisite cabinet of arboreal wonders, where each term becomes a story and each story…