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Writing the Wounded World: Poets Working from and against Eco-Grief

Rooms 435-436, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
Saturday, March 11, 2023
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

To be alive and aware today is to live in a wounded world. Let’s discuss how we engage eco-grief, solastalgia, more-than-human beings, and how we write with awareness of our human identities, biases, and limitations. Humankind’s complicity in the desecration of other living beings carries lamentation, anxiety and depression. We’ll discuss approaches that acknowledge our grief, our attempts toward healing, and the communities we call home: Cape Cod to New Mexico to Washington State.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_Event_Outline_for_Writing_the_Wounded_World.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Todd Davis, winner of the Midwest Book Award and the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, is the author of seven books of poetry, including Coffin Honey, Native Species, and Winterkill. He is professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State University’s Altoona College.

Elizabeth Bradfield’s most recent book is Toward Antarctica. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, and her honors include the Audre Lorde Prize and a Stegner fellowship. Founder of Broadsided Press, she works as a naturalist/guide and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University.

Geffrey Davis is the author of Night Angler, winner of the James Laughlin Award, and Revising the Storm, winner of the A. Poulin Prize. He's received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, the NEA, and the Whiting Foundation. He teaches with the University of Arkansas and with the Rainier Writing Workshop.

Donika Kelly is the author of the full-length collections The Renunciations and Bestiary. She is an assistant professor at the University of Iowa.

Anne Haven McDonnell is a poet and an associate professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her book Living with Wolves (Split Rock Press) and her book Breath on a Coal (Middle Creek Publishing) explore grief and wonder in relationship with earth.

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