“Winter Morning Walks” Nature Writing Class

These writing workshops are held in partnership with Troy Hess, the founder of On the Yahara Writing Center.  We hope to include and engage interested participants of all ages and encourage an intergenerational approach for our Pheasant Branch Conservancy education outreach. These workshops are free and are funded by the Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy as part of our 25th Anniversary celebration.

The Winter Morning Walks nature writing class is inspired by the poetry collection by the same name written by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. These casually observed poems are called ‘postcards’ to a friend and offer readers a very approachable form of poetry to read and consider for our own written observations as we take our local walks this winter.

This class will be approached as a sequence of observation and writing. Our hope is that you are able to draw from your most recent visits to the Pheasant Branch Conservancy or other hikes.  We might take writer’s notes, make phenological observations, even take pictures, then we’ll talk about ways to assemble our experiences as nature journal entries in poetry form discussed from the book.

For a final project, we might create our own ‘postcard’ and share them with others or submit them for publishing in an upcoming newsletter. No need to purchase the Winter Morning Walks book. All reading will be offered as part of the class.

Participants will meet via zoom.

Preregistration required, register here.