Writing in the Wild! Chautauqua Park

Writing can feel like a collaboration with forces beyond ourselves—the ancestral, the divine, the subconscious, and the ecological. In this generative workshop, we will connect with local ecology and write poems of place in collaboration with the natural world. We’ll meet at Chautauqua Park and, together, explore this beautiful area right in our back yard. After a grounding meditation to open your senses and connect with the land, we will read poems from a selection of wonderful nature poets. We will then spend time individually connecting with our own senses and the embodied environment all around us. At the end of the workshop, students will have an opportunity to read their poems aloud to each other. You will go home with new poems generated, a softened nervous system, and a deeper connection to nature. Open to all genres, sharing is always voluntary.