COST: Free /  Minimum 2, Maximum of 20 / All ability levels
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Like visual art, writing offers a window into our relationship with the land. Poetry provides a unique perspective to reflect on those relationships. In this session, we’ll read and analyze George Ella Lyon’s famous poem “Where I’m From”, then use it as a template to create our own versions from our own life experiences. Participants will be invited to share their work and engage in discussion about process, style, and technique.

Instructors will provide copies of George Ella Lyon’s poem “Where I’m From.”

Please bring notebook, pen/pencil.

Kevin Berend is an environmental scientist and freelance writer who lives in Escalante, where he organizes a local creative writing group. His work has appeared in Adirondac, Appalachia, and Northern Woodlands. You can read more of his work here.

Grace Welker, MEd, is a lifelong reader, writer, and traveler, who channeled her passion for communication first into a career in the field of English as a Second/Foreign Language, then into a career in editorial direction and content curating in the fields of holistic health and personal transformation. She is the author of Oasis Pages: Teen Writing Quest, a roadmap for teens to develop an engaging and enjoyable daily writing habit. Grace is finishing an MFA in creative writing at Manhattanville College and working on a mystery for middle-grade readers set at a rock art site in Utah, where she currently lives.