In this two-week course, you’ll read some springtime poetry and prose and experiment with practices designed to increase mindful engagement with natural landscapes and the more-than-human world around you, deepening your sensory and intuitive experiences of the natural environment. Then you’ll translate that experience into writing. These practices will be designed for those who want to write directly about the land in a variety of genres, as well as for writers who hope to develop richer, more realistic, and more meaningful settings for their creative work.

This course will include one Zoom meeting and one in-person “field day” meeting in a natural setting near Nashville. Participants from locations outside of Nashville are also welcome to register for this course, and will be able to participate in the field day virtually, in the natural setting of their choice.

Register with The Porch at https://www.porchtn.org/class/writing-the-natural-world-spring