2 workshops to choose from: 1) Writing the Land®: Mind and Body, Poetry and Place with Susan Landgraf and Kara Douglas, and 2) Bearing Witness in Dark Times with Lise Weil (scroll down)

 Writing the Land® Workshops: Mind and Body, Poetry and Place

February 1, 2026 1:30-4:30pm Eastern

Writing the Land® (WTL) is an international project that pairs poets with conserved lands. WTL Workshops now offer the expertise of this community of skilled poets to all who wish to connect with their lands. Each Writing the Land® workshop is taught by a trained WTL poet using their special expertise and our unique materials to help anyone who wishes to deepen their connection with Nature. Please join us in person or online to help write the land.

About this Workshop

In this 2.5 hour beginner’s workshop we’ll use simple poetry exercises and embodiment techniques to connect with the land. Join us to explore new tools to tap into your creativity and enhance your relationship with the natural world. 1:30-4:00pm Eastern, February 1, 2026 online or in person at Fishmoon Yoga, 4 Ash Point Road, Harpswell, Maine. Introductory price: $99

About your workshop leaders

Susan Landgraf, Poetry:

Susan Landgraf has published six books, including Out of a Land of Alkali and Chromate; served as Auburn’s Poet Laureate; received an Academy of American Poet Laureates award; and published more than 400 poems in Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and others. Landgraf has given more than 150 workshops in the US and abroad and taught 30 years at Highline College.

Kara Douglas, Embodiment:

Kara Douglas is a poet & essayist, yoga & meditation teacher in Harpswell, Maine, where she runs Fishmoon Yoga studio. She is the co-editor of Alive to This, A Collection of Personal Essays on Living Fully by 20 Maine Writers. Her poetry is published in: A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis and Writing the Land: Maine and Maine II among others.

Bearing Witness in Dark Times, a Workshop

with Lise Weil

6 weeks beginning March 4, 2026, online Wednesdays from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM eastern time

Includes an additional individual meeting with Lise Weil for each participant to discuss her own work

Bearing Witness in Dark Times

This class is for every writer who wishes to write without  looking  away from the harms and the horrors of this historical moment, who agrees with Quebec novelist Gail Scott that “...a writer may do as she pleases with her epoch.  Except ignore it.”  It is for writers in all genres. In addition to writing, you will be reading writers—of poetry, essay, creative nonfiction--who have specialized in reporting on the losses and atrocities of their time: e.g. Carolyn Forché, Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest Williams, Linda Hogan, as well as writers from the newly published anthology Dreams Before Extinction,  which gathers ten years of writing and artwork from the journal Dark Matter: Women Witnessing. I am founding editor of that journal and co-editor of the anthology. As such I work with writers in all genres to make their work shine. My hope for the writers in this workshop is that, like the writers in Dark Matter, they will discover that facing in to the dangers and losses of this moment can lead to writing that reverberates with both truth and possibility.  

We will meet once a week on zoom, Wednesdays from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM eastern time, for six weeks, beginning March 4th, 2026.  Also included is a one-on-one discussion about your work with Lise Weil. Cost $300

About your workshop Leader

Lise Weil is editor of Dark Matter: Women Witnessing,an online journal devoted to healing our broken relationship to the earth. She  was founder and editor of the US feminist review Trivia: A Journal of Ideas (1982-1991) and co-founder of its online offshoot Trivia: Voices of Feminism, which she edited through 2011 (www.triviavoices.com). Her memoir, In Search of Pure Lust (She Writes Press, U.S., Inanna Press, Canada) was a finalist for an International Book Award. She lives in Montreal and, until it closed, taught in Goddard College’s Graduate Institute, where she helped found a concentration in Embodiment Studies. Lise continues to edit the longstanding online journal Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, and most recently co-edited the anthology based on the first 10 years of Dark Matter published with NatureCulture® this year. www.liseweil.com