Living Methods:
Renaissance of the Earth in Verse

Instructor: Scout Turkel

Wednesdays & Fridays 12:00-1:30pm
July 10-August 2, 2024
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

This poetry workshop considers the relationship between cultivating the earth and cultivating poetry. All interested individuals are invited to apply; this course is entirely free, and does not require university affiliation. Living Methods centers around the thing called “earth” (the globe, the soil, the place writing happens) with special attention to written and gardened evidence of the earth’s poetic history. We will turn our attentions to what writing in-place, as living beings, evokes for each us. We will consider the relationship between methods for keeping things alive — tending to the Kinney Center's grounds, observing the abundance of western Massachusetts summertime — and encouraging the liveliness of our own poetic projects. We will experiment with, share, and unfurl methods for living. Where we write will become inextricably linked to what we write, and we will attend to both sites with continued curiosity and care.

Living Methods: Renaissance of the Earth in Verse is a four-week, twice-weekly poetry workshop on-site at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. The Kinney Center is located at 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002. All interested individuals are invited to apply; this course is entirely free, and does not require university affiliation. Applications are due by June 1, 2024.