{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"A Field of Stillness and Fire","description":"The future is not a distant horizon\u2014it is a pressure, a question, a making. In this featured reading, Robert Hass and Tongo Eisen-Martin bring their distinct poetics into shared air. Hass writes from a practice of attention\u2014where the natural world, memory, and language gather to ask how we might live with care inside what is vanishing and what remains. Eisen-Martin\u2019s work strikes at the conditions that structure the present, his lines charged with refusal, insurgency, and the demand for otherwise. Between them, a field emerges: stillness and upheaval, observation and fire. The poems do not resolve the future\u2014they trouble it, press against it, insist on it. Here, poetry becomes a site of reckoning and reimagining, where what comes next is not given, but made. This event took place in Downtown Berkeley, at the Bay Area Book Festival, May 29-31 2026.&amp;nbsp; Support our work and help to keep the Bay Area Book Festival 96% free! https:\/\/givebutter.com\/writingthefuture Check out our upcoming events www.baybookfest.org Follow us on instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/baybookfest\/ ","author_name":"Bay Area Book Festival Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.baybookfest.org","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42056770\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/42056770"}