This 4-week virtual class will meet on Wednesdays in April from 6:00-9:00 pm via Zoom.
For human cultures all over the world, Nature has been the original Subject for poems, songs, and stories. However, modern classes in nature writing often focus on a canon of work produced by white male writers responding to waves of industrialization. In this workshop, we'll consider the implications of the ways that nature writing has so often been defined as a genre, and broaden and deepen our thinking about what nature writing is and can be. We'll read nature-based work created by writers from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds, and do some practices derived from the discipline of forest bathing to help us feel our way into the possibilities of our decolonial imaginations, supported by our relationality with the more-than-human world. Generative writing exercises—and practical suggestions for merging nature-connection practices with writing practices—will be included.
Fee: $196 for Porch members; $230 for non-members.