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Acknowledging the generative potential of traversal, this roundtable centers on walking as a somatic writing practice and poetic technique. The five poets on this panel are interested in the interrelationship between physical movement and the emergence of thinking and language and consider such things as the commons in times of privatization, the sacred in a time of environmental degradation, the ways in which that act of walking with and walking alongside impacts and disrupts habits of attention, and tensions between the ideal walk, “in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned” (as Rebecca Solnit describes in Wanderlust) and the “unideal walk,” where mind, body, and world are not aligned and can’t align for various reasons—practical, ethical, or political.