In this ecopoetry workshop, John Shoptaw (that’s me!) will help you write persuasively about the natural environment, other animals, and climate change. I’ll help you reach readers without preaching to them. We’ll start with some exemplary poems, then you’ll draft you own, and finally you’ll find out how they come across with your fellow poets.
3 hours on Saturday | November 23 | 12-3pm | $105 ($90 for Members)
In-person meetings will take place in the Stanley Kunitz Conference Room at Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282.
John Shoptaw teaches poetry and ecopoetry in the English Department of UC Berkeley, where he is a member of the Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative and the Berkeley Climate Change Network. His Times Beach won the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. He has published poems and essays in The American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Arion, Oxford Public Philosophy, and elsewhere. His poetry is being anthologized in Treelines, The Ecopoetry Anthology, and The New Sent(i)ence. Jenny Holzer incorporated a poem of his in her installation at the Salesforce Transit Center. His Near-Earth Object is now out from Unbound Edition Press. The foreword, by Jenny Odell, appears online in The Paris Review.