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When the Land Speaks: How We Strive to Listen for Language While Out in Nature
Friday, February 9, 2024
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
What do we as poets and essayists listen to and experience while out in nature to create the metaphors and language for our writing? What do our known landscapes bring out in our work that nowhere else does? How do we best learn about new wilderness areas? Our panel will share different ways to nurture inspiration through how we speak on the page against the issues of our times, such as climate crisis, preservation, endangered species, historical and racial controversies, and overpopulation.
Participants
Allen Gee is the DL Jordan Endowed Professor of Creative Writing and editor of CSU Press at Columbus State University. He is author of My Chinese-America (essays) and At Little Monticello (a forthcoming biography of James Alan McPherson).
Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community performance artist, and professor at the University of Michigan and on the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College. Her third poetry collection is Gut Botany (2020), and her forthcoming collection is Diver Beneath the Street (2024).
CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems (Floodgate 2020) and coeditor of Native Voices (Tupelo 2019). CMarie is director of Elk River Writers Workshop and faculty in the graduate program in creative writing at Western Colorado University.
Renata Golden's essay collection Mountain Time: A Field Guild to Astonishment will be published by Columbus State University Press in spring 2024. Her essays and poetry have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston and lives in New Mexico.
Sean Hill, author of two books of poems, Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, directs the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference. His honors and awards include a fellowship from the NEA. His poems have appeared in journals and in anthologies including Black Nature and Villanelles.
