The course: You, Who the Earth Was For Jean Valentine, the great symbolist poet, left us an eternal reminder: “you / who the earth was for.” As a time-sensitive traveler of Continue reading →
The course: Investigating Place This course will serve as a deep investigation of a single natural landscape of significance to you. This can be the woods near your home where you Continue reading →
The course: The Self in Nature In this class, we'll spend time examining different approaches to nature writing. We'll look at how we see nature in ourselves and how we can Continue reading →
The course: What If This Ends Well? Rewriting Stories of Dystopia and Apocalypse in Time to Change the Narrative Cormac McCarthy's Road. Atwood's Handmaid's Tale. Mad Max, The Walking Dead. Books, film, and Continue reading →
The Course: Rewilding Prose The natural world has often been reduced in writing workshops and craft books to “setting”—a static stage backdrop behind which the human drama, or plot, or “real story” unfolds. Continue reading →
The course: The Breakthrough The trick here will be to astonish ourselves. To outfox and outwrite ourselves. This nonfiction workshop seeks to provide us with ways to leap into ideas we Continue reading →