Writing the Wild: A Weekend Workshop of Ecopoetry

$110.00

Sat & Sun Writing Eco-Poetry
w/ Adele Elise Williams
September 28 & 29  // from 1-4

Availability: Only 1 left in stock

Grackle artwork by Kathy Barny

How has the “nature poem” evolved since the ancient pastoral? What is an urban nature poem? Can one consider the body or psyche as a natural space? Can a nature poem be Confessional? Surreal? More tensely, what does it mean to write a nature poem in times like these, where the natural world is up in arms, and in such a dynamic space as Houston–a thriving and diverse metropolis with a coastline devastated by industry. This workshop tackles all of those questions and more as we look to the Ecopoetry of then and now. We will read closely, discuss enthusiastically, and write, play, write! 

Class topics will include the craft of imagery, figuration, and form, while class activities include free-writing prompts, ekphrasis, quick-time exercises, and collage. We will encounter writers such as Camille Dungy, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Tommy Pico, Jennifer Scappettone, Sasha West, Jessica Jacobs and others. All levels of writers welcome.

Adele Elise Williams is the author of WAGER, selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series. She is  the winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize, Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing and Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize for Poetry. With Dana Levin, she co-edited the most recent volume of the Unsung Masters Series on poet Bert Meyers. Adele is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston where she serves as Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Indiana Review, The Georgia Review, Crazyhorse, Guernica, Cream City Review, The Florida Review and elsewhere. Adele’s critical and creative work explore how gender performance and working-class ecologies engage designations of high and low art, specifically within confessionally-innovative poetics. As a wild and working-class woman, Adele is wooed by low-brow and no-class aesthetics. Her current goings-on can be found at adeleelisewilliams.com.

 

 

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