This 10-week poetry workshop focuses on an idea brought up in an article by Catherine Buni in the LA Review of Books – “Toward a Wider View of ‘Nature Writing’” (1.10.2016). Buni speaks to the idea that as readers and writers, there is much to be considered in what nature writing can be when the focus includes the experiences of people of color. With this notion in mind, this workshop will serve people at all levels and of all backgrounds to de-romanticize what nature writing and poetry look like, so as to encourage a different kind of language to emerge. This course will include prompts and model texts from contemporary poets of diverse backgrounds and experiences. And although the workshop will consider “nature writing” as a springboard, there will be other prompts as well, and most of the workshop will be spent listening and responding to the work of its members, who are invited, as always, to submit poems of all stripes and origins. We look forward to a productive, supportive, and enriching environment, and hopefully at the end of 10 weeks you’ll have a bouquet of new poems to carry with you.