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The Art of Nature: An Environmental Writing Workshop with Hannah Rodabaugh

  • The Cabin 801 S Capitol Blvd Boise (map)

This workshop will inspire you to create thoughtful poignant writing in response to global impacts on our water, land, and air.

Naturalist Roger Tory Peterson describes nature-based art as an “awareness, and in that awareness is the beginning of all true conservation.” In this nature-writing workshop, we’ll hone our tools of observation while going deeper into contemporary themes in environmental nonfiction, poetry, photography, and art. We’ll investigate global themes like environmental justice, environmental personhood, and rewilding through weekly writing prompts. We'll discuss the works of Diane Ackerman, Juliana Spahr, Jaimi Butler and Bonnie Baxter, Jon Ching, Andy Goldsworthy, Chisa Inada, J. Drew Lanham, Sandra Beasley, and others. All genres of writing are welcome. Be prepared to spend class-time and some of your own time outside.

Workshop themes are below.

  • Week One: Observation / Field Notes

  • Week Two: Visual Art / Ekphrasis

  • Week Three: Sound Maps

  • Week Four: Environmental Justice

  • Week Five: Environmental Personhood / Elegy

  • Week Six: Rewilding

Location

This workshop will take place in person at The Cabin (801 S. Capitol Street, Boise, ID).

Tuition

$215 or $180 for Cabin Members

Scholarships are available

Dates

Thursdays from 6:30 – 8:30 PM MT on the following dates:

  • October 5, 2023

  • October 12, 2023

  • October 19, 2023

  • October 26, 2023

  • November 2, 2023

  • November 9, 2023

This workshop is taught by:

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Hannah Rodabaugh
Hannah Rodabaugh

Hannah Rodabaugh holds an MA from Miami University and an MFA from Naropa University. She is the author of three chapbooks, including We Don't Bury Our Dead When Our Dead Are Animals, a collection of Pushcart-nominated ecological elegies. Her writing is featured or forthcoming in The Indianapolis Review, Camas Magazine, Glassworks Magazine, Blueline Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, EcoTheo Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and others. She has been an artist-in-residence for the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management and received a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. When not writing, she volunteers for the Golden Eagle Audubon Society. She teaches at Boise State University and The Cabin.

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