Workshop ~ Enchanting the Forest

I'm very excited to be teaching another nature poetry workshop at HVNC this month:

Enchanting the Forest. Hidden Valley Nature Center, Jefferson, ME.
September 21, 2024, 10 am - 12 pm.
The word "enchant" comes from Latin roots that mean "to sing upon." To enchant a forest means, literally, to sing to it, and cultures around the world have historically sung to forests and other special landscapes. In this workshop, we'll walk the trails of HVNC, noticing the wild things around us engaging in word play along the way, including rhyming, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. When we reach the barn, we'll turn this word play into poems inspired by those in the books The Lost Words and The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane. When we're done we'll speak, or sing for those brave enough, our poems out loud--thus enchanting HVNC's forest.

This workshop should be a lot of fun--and it only costs $5!  I'd love to see you there.

Register here.