Instructor: Elizabeth Bradfield
Monday - Friday
July 6 - 10
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

“It is solved by walking” – St. Augustine

“Accuracy is always the gateway to mystery.” – Denise Levertov

Wonder. Wander. A naturalist’s attention to the world can enhance any writer’s eye for detail. This poetry workshop is geared toward increasing our capacity to experience and express wonderment through the rich intersections of observation, knowledge, movement, and memory. We will wander toward wonder through readings, natural history focused walks, writing assignments, and conversations. We will experience different habitats and weathers in this workshop, and we will share a quality of attention that will bring us—and our words—together.

Writer/naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of the SOFAR: Poems, Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work and Toward Antarctica, which combines her photographs with brief, hybrid essays. She is also co-creator of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, winner of a 2024 Northwest Book Award among other honors, and her poems have been published in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided, she works as a naturalist/guide locally on Cape Cod and directs the Poetry Concentration in the low-residency MFA program at Western Colorado University. www.ebradfield.com