Join Stephen Jenkinson In-Person This Summer

Newsletter Published on April 23, 2026

Join Stephen Jenkinson in-person this summer for

STAGGERED • STILLED • SUMMONED

A Thinking Man’s Brush With Neurodegeneration

July 16-19, 2026
Orphan Wisdom Hall
Ontario, Canada

An in-person event with Stephen Jenkinson in the Orphan Wisdom Hall marking the publication of his forth coming book
Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse.

“A kind of memoir of monstrous encounter, a wrestling match with divinity, with lucidity, with mind.”

Photo by: Joshua Cogan

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