Watermark is exited to host former Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, for an event celebrating her new memoir The Magic Eye. Mirriam-Goldberg will be in store on October 26th to talk about her book, with a question and answer period to follow. The Magic Eye encompasses a mythic, quirky, and timely journey with a cast of unforgettable friends that make surviving the odds—both the danger of invasive cancer in a body and invasive development vying for tallgrass prairie—possible. Crossing through the pandemic, this memoir is guided by tenderness, curiosity, and more than a dash of magic as Mirriam-Goldberg writes of giving endangered turtles names such as Gandalf and Harrison Ford, undergoing surgery to insert a radioactive disk in her eye, outsmarting a tornado, and the Rube Goldberg contraption of the body. The Magic Eye investigates what it means to reinhabit our bodies and ecosystems.