The Ocean’s Heart: The Tiny Creatures Essential to Life Read-Aloud with Jilanne Hoffmann

Event date:
Sunday, May 31
Event time:
12:00pm-12:20pm
Audiences:
Themes:
Booksales:
Ashay By the Bay Books, right by the stage in the park
Access:
FREE

Far below the ocean’s surface live tiny, restless creatures called zooplankton. They are so small, and they live so deep, that we may never see them, but the entire food web depends upon their survival. Venture into the ocean’s twilight zone with Jilanne Hoffmann at this read-aloud of The Ocean’s Heart: The Tiny Creatures Essential to Life!

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

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