Ecopoetics in Action

What we have perpetrated on our environment has certainly affected a poet's means and material, thinking and life. Can poetry embody values that acknowledge the economy of interrelationship between human and non-human realms? How might poetry register the complex interdependency that draws us into a dialogue with the world, moving beyond theme and reference? In this class, we will think-with ecoscapes, ecotones, and Animalia (ourselves included, along with our humanimal contexts), and other life and nonlife forms, via the lapping possibilities of poetic language. We will write, read, discuss, create, think, experience. Do be prepared for some “field work”.