Mountain Artist in Residence Talk: Remain

In honor of National Poetry Month and Earth Week, WVU Libraries’ 2026 Mountain Artist in Resident L. Renée will display the results of her residency and speak at a public program to be held in the Milano Reading Room of the Downtown Library at 4 p.m. on April 23.

Her forthcoming interdisciplinary poetry and performance residency project “Remain” will draw on archival records of mountaintop removal mining to ask a haunting and urgent question: After a mountain is stripped, blasted, displaced, and “reclaimed,” what truly remains?

Event attendees will have the opportunity to learn about Renée’s creative process, listen to the poems, watch a short documentation film, and see the display of the works.