Poetry as Coexistence

What kind of writing emerges if we accept that no stable boundary separates the human from the nonhuman: that our existence is a coexistence? What kind of writing does this dynamic equilibrium with the world of animals, fungi, plants, and all other self-organized systems call for? How does one write in a way that acknowledges that the free-living aerobic bacteria that long ago became our mitochondria are inextricable from the present speaking self? Over the course of this workshop, we will explore these questions through a sequence of somatic attunements, observational field work, and language experiments. We will also engage with brief readings from Goethe, Emerson, Gertrude Stein, and Jack Spicer.