Cosponsored by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Writers Rising Up- Follow the wheel of the year with us in this four-workshop series May, Aug, Oct -2008 February- 2009. Each season, writers will meet to read classic and contemporary poems and do creative exercises, focusing on a different poetic form each time--odes and elegies; villanelles and sestinas; dramatic monologues; and sonnet—and exploring that form’s metaphoric equivalent in the arboretum: ephemerals, perennials, invasive species, and seeds. Part of each workshop was spent journaling outdoors. After having come full circle, poems grown over the year together will be chosen for a 2010 Calendar which will include photos from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Photographers Society. 

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Digging to the Roots: Poetic Form and the Natural World-
Environment - Readings