Author Talk – Russ McSpadden – Readings from “Borderlings”

Join Russ McSpadden for a poetry reading and conversation celebrating his new book Borderlings. Through verse and reflection, Russ explores life, love, and resistance in the San Rafael Valley—and his frontline advocacy against the border wall. A powerful event at the intersection of poetry and place.

Russ McSpadden has spent years monitoring and working in defense of northern jaguars, ocelots, rare insects and plants, and fragile transboundary ecosystems threatened by extractive industries and border militarization. He also stands alongside communities resisting new walls and mines. Borderlings is his debut collection.