Sunday December 3 * 2-5pm * LOCATION: U.S. Botanic Garden (so there is an option for indoors if it’s cold) * REGISTER

Want to learn more about eco-poetry?

Enjoy writing about nature, environmentalism and/or climate change?

Feel like you want to interact with nature, marinate, and be creative?

Come join fellow minds for an eco-poetry course in the parks! Any level of poetry experience is welcome.

This session will entail some history, writing, and sharing with nature. We will spend time strolling through nature and trying out different structures of poems about organic beauty, interesting species, captivating landscapes. For example we will write a sonnet about environmentalism, a collective poem about the garden, and/or sit under a Maple tree for 20 minutes to write haikus. The poems we create will be ecocentric and witty, grim, powerful, or funny. We will finish with a sharing session over cold drinks like cider and lemonade.

Please bring an open mind, pens/pencils, and a notebook.

The class will be at the U.S. Botanic Garden from 2-5 pm on December 3rd.

Amelia is a nature loving poet who resides in Mt. Pleasant. She works as an environmental scientist at a non-profit and has been writing poetry for 10 years. She performs at open mics regularly and is working on publishing her first poetry book. She loves to share the spirit of eco-poetry with others in poetry groups and events around town.