Elemental Poetry
Writing inspired by earth, water, fire, and air with Emily Levang
Are you looking for an inspiring new writing group to develop your poetry practice inspired by the land, water and sky? Do you need the structure and discipline of a guided course to help you stick to your goals? Are you looking for a peer group for support while you develop your writing? Join essayist, poet, mentor and ritual curator Emily Levang for a four-month course focusing on writing poetry with the elements.
The group will offer an opportunity to:
generate new writing through guided prompts,
deepen your relationship with the living world through poetic practice,
receive craft instruction and private feedback,
engage in meaningful discussion within a supportive community of writers
Over four two-hour sessions, Emily will open each gathering with a short practice to help you connect with each month’s element, both within your own body and the world around you. She will then offer short readings and a craft talk to inspire your work and a series of writing prompts to guide you to write about nature not just as the backdrop, but as a living presence.
The course will flow through earth, water, air, then fire, as a transformative arc through grounding, flow, expression, and spark, giving you new material and fresh direction for your poetry.
Dates:
Four sessions of 2 hours:
| Earth | Monday February 23 | 6pm - 8pm GMT
| Water | Monday March 23 | 6pm - 8pm GMT
| Air | Monday April 20 | 6pm - 8pm BST
| Fire | Monday May 18 | 6pm - 8pm BST
Each participant will also have a 1:1 mentoring session arranged individually.
All sessions will take place online.
Payment plans are available, please enquire for more information.
£240
About Emily Levang
Emily Levang is an essayist, poet, mentor and ritual curator.
Her work evokes our human interconnectedness with the elements, and invites us to deepen our relationship with nature. It is through this love that we each find our unique way of being in reciprocity and care with the living world.
Emily’s primary focus is protection and care for water, and in particular the Lake Superior watershed, which holds 10% of our entire world’s fresh surface water.
Growing up in the woods near the headwaters of the Great Lakes, this place was Emily’s friend and teacher. As an adult, she experienced how our relationships with nature are so often severed, and how that disconnect is a source of both pain and harm. She was called to begin unraveling internal patterns of colonization, and to re-establish intimacy with the living world, both lifelong practices.
Emily currently lives in Duluth, Minnesota, on Anishinaabe and Dakota land. Emily is the Creative Program Director for the Rights of Nature group, Waankam: People for the Estuary, which is working to raise awareness about the St. Louis River Estuary’s inherent right to exist, thrive, flourish, and regenerate.
Emily holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing, and her work has appeared in the Dark Mountain Project, Open Rivers Journal, Earth Island Journal, Panorama Journal, Pensive Journal, and others.
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