Princeton NJ Events

Ecopoetry in Depth: Major Poets with Winifred Hughes Spar, The Watershed Institute

Thursday February 19, 2026
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

This new course will offer an in-depth look at the work of major American figures in ecopoetry, from the seminal forerunners of the late twentieth century to experimental and cutting-edge voices of the twenty-first. This format will allow us to spend time reading and discussing multiple poems by individual poets, including Gary Snyder, A.R. Ammons, Brenda Hillman, Forrest Gander, Evelyn Reilly, Jorie Graham, and more. We will follow along as they attempt to establish a new paradigm for our human relationship to the natural world while responding to an ever-heightening sense of crisis. We will be reading now-classic ecopoems as well as up-to-the-minute work.

For information, contact Education Manager Anna Hill ahill@thewatershed.org or email winifred.spar@gmail.com

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Fake It Till You Make It - Frauds and Fakes in Jewish History, Adath Israel

Thursday February 19, 2026
7:30 PM

Explore some of the most intriguing literary controversies in Jewish history, from the Shapira Scrolls and the authorship of the Zohar to the invention of the Golem of Prague and a mysterious, modern addition to the Haggadah. This class asks why Jews created sacred fakes and what these stories reveal about authority, faith, and imagination. Three Thursdays in 2026: February 19, 26, and March 5 at 7:30pm. Free and open to the community. Register here: https://aicnj.shulcloud.com/form/Fake-It-Till-You-Make-It.html