Otter Looking at Me by Marty Espinola

Writing the Land: Beginning Workshops, At the Trailhead

by Susan Landgraf

This book is the first in a series meant for individual use, or for use with a workshop taught by a certified Writing the Land poet. Note that Writing the Land® is trade- and service-marked, and workshops branded Writing the Land® are taught by our poets only. This book can also be used by individuals independently. It has sections for adult and youth workshops that any beginning poet can do on their own!

Praise for Writing the Land

Writing the Land is a vital project that asks through the language of poetry the most important question that faces us in these cataclysmic times: who are we without the land and the more-than-human kin it nourishes, who nourish us in return? Each anthology contains poems that expose the lie of separation between human and nature, and returns us to the reality that even when trapped amongst pavement and concrete, we are but seedlings and genetic cousins to trees, plants, stones, and mycelia. To know ourselves, we must know the land. —Angela Maria Spring, poet, journalist, and owner of Duende District, a pop-up bookstore project for and by people of color, where all are welcome.