Earthly Love: A Conversation with Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, and Orion Magazine present Orion contributors and award-winning authors Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil in conversation with Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-author of Journey of the Universe and co-director of Yale’s Forum on Religion and Ecology. The event centers on themes of love, community, commitment, responsibility, and communication, exploring the intimacy and promise of humans’ moral, spiritual, and cultural relationships with the natural world – the love of nature and the nature of love. At a time when people are seeking inspiration and solace, this conversation will examine the ways environmental storytelling, spiritual ecology, and lessons of the more-than-human world can offer hope. Earthly Love is the sixth event in an ongoing series between Orion and Yale to celebrate Orion’s anthologies. This event features two contributors to the latest anthology, Earthly Love: Stories of Intimacy and Devotion from Orion Magazine, Volume 2, an updated edition to the 2020 anthology of the same name, featuring poetry and prose that illuminate the nature of love in the Anthropocene.