Ecopoetry: A Discussion and Generative Workshop

If you love words and love the world, ecopoetry is a wonderful way to explore the beauty and complications of both. Together, we'll look at and discuss some contemporary examples, then, through a guided writing exercise, try our hand at it! You'll be invited to explore, wonder, and share in a discussion-based craft class. Have a pen and notebook at the ready!

Links to broadsides we may discuss (click image for pdf). We won't have time for all, but together we'll choose two.

• "Extirpation", Keith Ekiss & Douglas Culhane
• "Some Things I Know Without the Field Guide", Suzanne Helfman & Gabriel Travis
• "Glitter Factory", Kathleen Winter & Sarah Van Sanden
• "River Jubilee", Chanda Feldman & Sara Tabbert
• "Como Una Vela", Michelle Moncayo & Meghan Keane

Professor Elizabeth Bradfield, Associate Professor of the Practice of English and the Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program, is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Toward Antarctica and Theorem. Co-director of the Creative Writing program at Brandeis, she also works as a naturalist and runs Broadsided Press.