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Please join us as we share ideas, texts, and creative practices integrating poetry and cultural critique and toward ceasing the destruction of ecosystems, habitats, biomes, communities and other climate consequences. We’ll also consider poetic practices that examine colonialist/ appropriative cultural mindsets, restore relationships, and help us to think about moving through climate crises into new relational contexts and systems.
Workshop leaders will spend some time sharing research, investigations, practices, and creative projects before opening the space to discussion and writing activities. We’ll draw on a decolonial poetics of relational healing, urban walking, southern literature, and close engagement with natural and cultural environments and we’ll invite participants into exploratory exercises for generating ideas and creative works toward a critical and potentially healing poetics of climate and culture.