Writing with the World: An Exploration of Imagination, Animacy, and Poetry
Schedule
Wed Aug 14 2024 at 02:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Dr. John Wilson Community Garden | Black Mountain, NC
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**You must RSVP by EMAIL to [email protected].**We need at least 6 participants to hold this class and will cap it at 14.
Tickets: $20 (cash, check, card at event), reach out for sliding scale prices
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
“To write inhabited words, to live an inhabited life, it is crucial to leave the certainty of dry land, to step into something liquid and moist, to immerse the self in the deep interior life that flows beneath the shallow surface of reason. And the key to this, to finding that deep interior life, is feeling.” - Stephen Harrod Buhner
What if we could talk, and be talked to, by the world?
Not as a metaphor, but actually. What if all along we’ve been living amid a wild conversation involving all of existence and it is only the supposed certainty of modernity that keeps us from opening to this wider conversation?
Based on the work of Stephen Harrod Buhner in his book “Ensouling Language,” Writing With The World will be an introductory exploration into these questions. Beginning with a framework of sensory gating and moving to a practice of opening up the senses, we will explore the earth intuitively, sensing with our bodies into the beings that we’ve long taken for silent. As we open our senses and give our attention to place, we will listen specifically for words, phrases, images, knowings, insights that might drift in from somewhere beneath or beyond the mind.
Bring a journal, a pen, snacks, and a willingness to access parts of yourself beneath or beyond the mind. After we write, we’ll gather to share our words and encounters and create a collective poem.
OUR TEACHER:
Kristopher Drummond is a wilderness guide, poet, and expressive arts therapist-in-training at Appalachian State University. He is a co-founder of the organization Remembering Earth, which hosts in-person and online workshops focused on immersive ecological connection, dreams, grief, and creativity. He just published his first collection of poetry, Start Here, with First Edition Design Publishing and is currently teaching poetry and wilderness writing workshops through Remembering Earth and in conjunction with Warren Wilson College. He also offers one-on-one work focused on dreams, writing, and somatic healing.
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Where is it happening?
Dr. John Wilson Community Garden, 29 White Pine Dr, Black Mountain, NC 28711-8776, United States,Black Mountain, North CarolinaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
