"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

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Scholar Karen Schoemer will lead a reading/discussion series on the Serious Side of Food. The group will convene monthly, starting on February 14th to explore an aspect of our culture that is often taken for granted. Food provides both nourishment and pleasure and each meal has its own broader implications for our personal health and well-being and global environmental and political landscapes. Working with histories, novels, and journalism, this series exposes some of the issues that lie on our plates.

The discussion group will meet at the Chatham Public LIbrary on the second Monday of each month (February 14 - June 13) from 6:30pm - 8pm. In the event that pandemic conditions worsen, this group may move online to Zoom. Advance registration is required as space is limited.

Karen Schoemer is a poet, author and performer living in Columbia County. Her poems have appeared in La Presa, Pine Hills Review, Blazing Stadium and Hobo Camp Review; her music criticism has been widely published and anthologized. The author of Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with ‘50s Pop Music (Free Press), she is a graduate of the Writer’s Foundry MFA program at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn.

This program is offered through the generous support of Humanities New York.