Moderator: Leader Curt Collier

Part survey, part writing experience.

The course will explore the roots of nature-centered poetry, focusing more on our human response to nature and our deep connections to natural “places.”

We will explore the Romantic poets of England’s Lake District (such as Wordsworth and Coleridge); American Transcendentalism (Emerson and Thoreau); Naturalism (Dickinson, Whitman, and Frost); Anti-Industrialists (Lawrence and Abbey), Preservationists (Potter, Muir, Leopold, Carson, and Goodall); Deep Ecologists (Snyder and Duncan); New-Agrarianism (Berry); and Mysticism (Tagore, Yeats, and Oliver), among others.