Find your inner poet!
Join us for this fun poetry writing workshop focusing on desert/nature poetry writing, in honor of Earth Day and National Poetry Month 2025. While some of us feel intimidated by reading poetry, let alone writing our own, longtime writing professor Ruth Nolan will guide participants through the deep sand of the craft of poetry writing into a place of ease and surprise. We'll read a few published desert poems as inspiration, then use guided prompts to generate poems during the workshop, and will even have time for those of you who'd like to share.
Ruth Nolan, M.F.A., M.A., is Professor of Creative Writing at College of the desert. She's the author of two poetry books, After the Dome Fire and Ruby Mountain; editor of No Place for a Puritan: the Literature of California's Deserts and co-editor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. She has helped hundreds develop their unique voice. A former wildland firefighter in the Mojave Desert and beyond, she is currently serving as Mojave Desert Poet Laureate. You can find her at instagram @ruthnolan.
Join us on Online:
Wednesday, April 30, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM (PDT)
This Zoom Workshop is FREE
Limit: 12 participants
Additional Information:
This event is organized by the Death Valley Institute (DVI), the educational division of the Death Valley Natural History Association (DVNHA). DVNHA supports the efforts of its official partners, Death Valley National Park and Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, through educational opportunities, fundraising, and sales.
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If you have any questions, please contact us at events@dvnha.org.
