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Multigenre Toolkit: Earth as Home–A Nature & Place-Based Generative Writing Class

This class invites writers to expand their definition of place in relationship to the human and more-than-human world. We’ll reorient towards other living beings and phenomena to illuminate our own spot in the larger ecological web. Using the permaculture concept of “Zones of Care,” we’ll expand our attention outwards to other habitats, ecosystems, and their inhabitants: animals, plants, and mycelium. This is a one-day multi-genre class focused on generative writing prompts for poems and micro-essays to help students begin to create their own “home-place” map of creative work. Together we’ll ask: How can thinking about plants, animals, rocks, and their native places give us new insights into re-imagining our own home-place?

This class takes place in-person, at the Loft at Open Book; we encourage participants to be fully vaccinated and masked in the interest of everyone’s safety. Please see the Loft’s website for the most up to date information about the Loft’s COVID policies.

This class takes place in-person, at the Loft at Open Book; we encourage participants to be fully vaccinated and masked in the interest of everyone’s safety. Please see the Loft’s website for the most up to date information about the Loft’s COVID policies.