WIND in the CANE: Or, poetry in the “black outdoors”

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Are poems set on urban streets landscape poems? Can a poem shot through with mistrust of, and alienation from, the land and other natural bodies constitute a nature poem? How do our notions of dwelling in the body inform our notions of dwelling on land? In this cross-disciplinary workshop, we’ll consider what informs our prevailing views of the natural world; we’ll investigate the language we use to describe the spaces we inhabit, haunt, cross over, and take as refuge; and we’ll attune to the body and its material culture, which shapes our experience and enables our relationship to the land.