Writing with the Earth: An Anti-Imperialism Approach Towards Eco-Poetics
Tue, Sep 16
|Virtual Workshop
Through reading poems of Jayne Cortez, Fady Joudah, and Diana Khoi Nguyen in conversations with contemporary texts about environmental harms and their long lives, participants will walk away with material that addresses the intersections of environmental harm and war making in their writing.
Time & Location
Sep 16, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Virtual Workshop
About the event
Workshop Description: Building on the foundation laid in the first workshop, participants will dive deeper into Western imperialism's impact on the environment and how writers grapple with those impacts in their writings. Reading work by contemporary poets Cianga, Golden, Maya Salameh, this workshop begs the question: how are we to interpret the ecological vulnerability of our time through language, place, history and emergent knowledge? How can we re-embed ourselves into the natural world, and remind ourselves of our responsibility to it? This layered response allows for a deeper engagement with ecological works and moves beyond the aesthetic/sensorial into ethical and stewardship capacity. Participation in the first workshop is not required.
About the Presenter: Ashia Ajani is a sun shower, an overripe nectarine, a carnivorous plant, a glass bead. They are the author of one poetry collection, Heirloom (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023) and a forthcoming collection of lyric essays, Tending the…