Freshwater Writing’s YOU ARE HERE: WRITE INTO NATURE

YOU ARE HERE: WRITE INTO NATURE IS A ONE-DAY GENERATIVE SESSION DESIGNED TO EXPLORE NATURE POETRY AND HOW IT MIGHT ENRICHEN YOUR OWN WORK.

Spend a Sunday morning soaking up poetry that lingers in the natural world–poems that praise, celebrate, care for, mourn, and reimagine nature and our relationship to it. 

Drawing from poems in the newly released U.S. Poet Laureate-edited anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World and beyond, we will attune ourselves to the sounds and language of our natural world and its landscapes. In this generative session, we will read and discuss a wide range of nature poems and respond with our own writing. While there is no feedback component, there will be plenty of opportunities to share our new words with one another. You can expect to leave with a burgeoning sense of how you might incorporate nature into your own work, and an abundance of freshly started pieces.

This circle is for writers of all levels.

Details

When: Sunday, October 6, 9:00am-12:00pm CST

Where: Zoom (You will receive Zoom information prior to the first meeting. The session will be recorded, so if you have to miss some or all of the session, you will still have access to the materials, discussion, and prompts.)

Investment: $65 (If you prefer a payment schedule, we’re happy to set one up! Simply contact Chelsea. A partial scholarship is available: contact Chelsea to inquire—no need to apply or disclose any financial information, though priority is given to writers who have not received a Freshwater Writing scholarship in the past.)