About Course
Survival for Poets
What is your relationship with your writing? What is your relationship with your immediate environment?
During the course, we will explore non-conventional creative approaches needed at this time of climate crisis and biodiversity loss. Participants will activate their languaging experiences by going outside and attuning to their local ecosystems. Consider bringing a family member, friend, or colleague along for the experience!
Survival for Poets is a writing workshop for those in relation—whether those relations are familial, companion, kindred, friendship, collegial, or of another flavour. It is a workshop for everyone—not only poets. Each session proposes a way to engage with the writing process and planetary being through highlighting the role that languaging plays in shaping relations with ourselves, our close ones, and the ecosystems that sustain us.
The course is facilitated in English, though all languages are welcome and encouraged in creative output.
Survival for Poets is a course to do at your own pace. It is designed as six lessons, with each divided into five sessions. Participants are encouraged to spend roughly one hour per lesson (with each session designed for engagement between 5 to 30 minutes, or as long as desired).
Each lesson is comprised of the following five sessions:
- a mini-lecture to situate
- LET’S GET BIOGEOPHYSICAL. Attunement exercises for experiential knowledge acquisition.
- (W)READ. The action of (w)reading can be defined as writing while reading. You will find reading suggestions here with a proposal on how to (w)read.
- (W)RITE. The action of (w)riting could be defined as writing used within a ritual. You will find a proposal to (w)rite within the lesson’s context.
- (G)LISTEN. Consider how each sonic offering in this section could be a sibling or companion to the lesson’s subject. Dancing encouraged.
This course is lovingly dreamt by a Snæfellsjökuls rawlings.