In Writing Earth, John Brantingham will teach you how to write about the natural world both in the classroom and in the field. This eight-week course will include four field trips into the natural spaces in and around the Inland Empire and Pomona Valley. In the other four classes, we will develop our work and revise it at the dA Center for the Arts focusing on developing the vignette, flash fiction, the prose poem, and the lyrical essay. Various local historians and scientists will also help us to understand this world we occupy. Student will also be invited to show their work at the dA. Those who wish to have their relevant writing, photography, and art shown at the dA will be included in California Imagism, the April show John Brantingham is curating.

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Sundays from January 20 - March 10 at 11am.
Cost $200 per person for all 8 sessions

$30 per person per session

$20 per students 16 & up with ID for 8 session ( Listed below Individual sales )

All proceeds to be donated to programs at Sequoia and Kings Canyon and the dA Center for the Arts.

Schedule
January 20
Meeting and greeting. An overview of four modes of writing: prose poem,
fiction vignette, flash fiction story, and lyrical essay. Writing from direct experience and
writing what you see rather than what you expect. Writing the prose poem
and getting your notebook ready.

January 27
Vertical Zonation Field Trip with Carly Creley in Mount Baldy

February 3
Writing the present, the past, and the future. Where have we been, and where are we going?
What do we mean when we say history?
Alternative approaches to writing fiction and the flash fiction story.

February 10
Fossil Field Trip to the Desert

February 17
Seeing the earth vertically rather than horizontally and the layers of the forest.
The fiction and nonfiction vignette. A meditation on fire. Using writing to achieve
a state of mindfulness.

February 24
Fire field trip with Kendall Johnson.

March 3
Writing big and writing small. The lyrical essay. How to see beyond the
middle view of the world and incorporate that into our writing.

March 10
The world of the microcosm and macrocosm field trip.

John Brantingham is Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park’s first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines and The Best Small Fictions 2016. He has ten books of poetry and fiction including The L.A. Fiction Anthology (Red Hen Press) and A Sublime and Tragic Dance (Cholla Needles Press). He teaches at Mt. San Antonio College.