Saturday, March 8th, 2025, 9:30AM-1:30PM
Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. General registration will open on Tuesday, December 17th at 10:00AM.
Class will be followed by a catered lunch by Tumerico and a presentation from a guest speaker from a local nonprofit organization. Lunch and presentation will be held from 12:30PM - 1:30PM.
Breathing offers a natural rhythm to our lives. The element of air seems invisible yet charges our every act, thought, and word. In the climate crisis, as inspiration meets expiration, the vulnerable act of breathing amplifies winds of change from polluted atmospheres to Black Lives Matter to COVID-19 to each life and death across the planet. In this writing workshop, we reimagine the presence of air in our words—poetry, nonfiction, fiction, between & beyond—breathing life into lines and sentences, paragraphs and poetics of place, retuning our basic rhythm of being alive. This generative workshop is the fourth in a seasonal series of workshops at the Poetry Center around natural elements to bridge ecologies.
This generative workshop is the fourth in a seasonal series of workshops at the Poetry Center around natural elements to bridge ecologies. The series is a sister effort to immersive short courses on Literary Ecologies taught by Gretchen at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia. Participants can take one workshop by itself, or grow a practice of relational ecologies between places over time.