Wonderous, Wintergreen: A Wisconsin Ecopoetry Workshop

All around us, in all seasons, the natural world exists, persists. Let us reflect on the lands, waters, skies, space, of all the places we have lived, loved, dreamed of, and called home. What are the multiple geographies you know, and want to know, both in Wisconsin and outside of it? What stories can you share about particular places, and all our human, plant, and animal relations? Creating a range of new poems, we will explore myriad means of map-making, ways of making words sing, developing confidence in our ability to write and dialogue effectively about the cosmos.

This special session is offered free of charge but registration is required as space is limited.

Class size: Minimum 5, maximum 15.

Teaching Artist: Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán (they/he) is a multimedia artist, activist/organizer, critic, and educator. A Tulsa Artist Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, they are the author of the poetry/photography chapbooks, Archipiélagos; Inquillry; Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking; and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. Bodhrán is editor of the first global queer/trans Indigenous collection, the international queer/trans Indigenous issue of Yellow Medicine Review; and co-editor of the Native dance/movement/performance issue of Movement Research Performance Journal. Co-founder of the world’s first transgender film festival, which became the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, they organized the world’s first transgender Arab roundtable dialogue for Sinister Wisdom. They have received scholarships and fellowships from CantoMundo, Macondo, Radius of Arab American Writers, Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, and Lambda Literary.