Observe the world with “the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist,” urges the writer and environmental advocate Miriam Horn, citing Nabokov. She is describing not just how to see but how to be. Her other philosophical advice: live like the Ponderosa pine. Is this metaphor or pantheism? A conversation at the Bowery Poetry Club with music from Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holms.

•  PERSON: Don MacNeill
•  PLACE: Upper Blanco Basin
•  THING: a small cast penguin
•  RANDY’S PLACE: River Road