Between Elsewhere & Here: An Ecstatic Approach to Ecopoetics with H. G. Dierdorff
Sat, Oct 03
|Virtual on Zoom
Explore how poetry can meet environmental crisis with attention, grief, desire, and care. In this generative workshop, participants will read contemporary ecopoets, question the limits of language, and write new work that reimagines responsibility beyond the self.
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Virtual on Zoom
About the Event
What is the role of poetry in an environmental crisis? Can a poetics of ecstasy, through decentering the self, move us toward the care and action our current moment requires?
In this educational and generative session, we’ll look at several poems that reimagine the space between ecstasy, environmentalism, and ethics and discuss the limits and possibilities of language within each.
Poets studied may include Mary Oliver, Jake Skeets, Brenda Hillman, CA Conrad, MaKshya Tolbert, and Daniela Naomi Molnar.
After studying how ecopoets resist the logic of violence, you’ll respond with your own writing. Together, we’ll explore how responsibility to each other can be a kind of ecstasy that removes us from our illusions of control and moral purity, creating space for desire and grief to exist alongside.
All levels welcome.
Tickets
Between Elsewhere & Here
Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88694451056?pwd=m7PSJENxZ15ldWVSR4kC7aN2kaZ2XK.1 Meeting ID: 886 9445 1056 Passcode: 621359
$40.00
+$1.00 ticket service fee
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