Hydropoetics: writing with and as water

Catalog description

This poetry workshop takes its inspiration from the word hydrography. Etymologically, hydrography means water writing. As a science, hydrography concerns itself with surveying bodies of water especially for the purpose of safe navigation. We will consider ourselves as literary hydrographers, surveying a number of hydroscapes and returning the word to its parts. We will think, read, experience, and write about water in many dimensions and scales and we will attempt to write with and as water, as watery bodies. Together we will encounter the work of many theorists of water, including selections from poets, hydrofeminists, ecocritics, urbanists, sound artists and others. We will conduct written and auditory experiments grounded in oceans, rivers, lakes, pools, and ponds of our choosing.