5:30 PM Hybrid at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom
Peter Grima presents “Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Botanist”
Peter Grima is a NEBS member and botanist based in western Massachusetts. His botanical work focuses on the floristic inventory of novel landscapes and the ecology and biogeography of rare species. He is coauthor (with fellow NEBS members) of the 2020 Vascular Flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts, a recent update to the flora of the Mount Holyoke Range, and an upcoming flora of Mount Toby. He has also collected over 1500 of his own herbarium specimens. Additionally, Peter has published scholarly work in The Emily Dickinson Journal and has presented on Dickinson’s Herbarium at venues including the Boston Athenaeum and Smith College Botanic Garden. He has also collaborated on the Dickinson Herbarium-inspired anthotype photography project This Earthen Door with visual artists Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey.
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(Photo credit: A. Marchand)
