Past workshops

In 2019 and twice in 2023 international participants gathered for two weeks to work together collectively and individually towards their poetic projects.

At ecopoetics workshop 2023: Italy, we were lucky to welcome leading theorists and practitioners in the field of ecopoetics to present their work over Zoom. We are immensely grateful to Orchid Tierney, Jonathan Skinner, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Joanna Makowska, and Nuno da Silva Marquez for so generously giving their time to be part of our gathering, and for thinking together with us.

At ecopoetics workshop 2023: NYC we had a day event, where 12 of us gathered in Central Park to make poems together. We then traveled underground, via the subway, writing, to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where we immersed ourselves in a milieu of nesting herons and airplanes flying out of JFK.

We also had a night event at ISO Studios in Brooklyn's Navy Yards, where noted artists and performers joined us to sip coffee and present our work. Thank you, deeply, to Jason Isolini, Rachel Keen, Sasha Fishman, Tessel Veneboer, Ibanov Castellanos, and the inimitable Edwin Torres for co-constituting a blissful coming-together.

We were privileged to gather an amazing group of ecopoetics fellows for our main two-week residency last year, so we'd love for you to meet them. Below!

Fani Avramopoulou

Fani is a poet, artist, teacher, and labor organizer based out of Philadelphia and Baltimore with roots in Athens, Greece. She works at the juncture of mess and method, against authority and in uneasy dialogue with convention

Tessa Bolsover

Tessa is a poet and interdisciplinary artist based in Durham, NC. She is a founding editor of auric press and works across sound studies, visual media, ecological thought, and feminist studies.

Hear Tessa read on the album Salutations, pressed by RVNG.

Sam Creely

Sam is a Toronto-based writer, editor, bookmaker, and educator whose work engages anticolonial and queer methodologies, turning syntax against institutional systems of logic or sense.

See Sam's project, DanceNotes here.

Roman DuBrule

Based in British Columbia and a lifelong musician, Roman researches the ways in which art and media affect time and memory amidst the end of the world.

Mackenzie Ground

Mackenzie is a nehiyawiskwew and a writer from and currently based in Enoch Maskekosihk Cree Nation and Edmonton amiskwacîwâskahikan, Alberta and Treaty Six territory. She is a member of the Writing Revolution in Place research collective.

Read Mackenzie's poem, mend in the balsam, here.

Amanda Hurtado

Amanda works at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is the author of S ACE P (Timglaset, 2020 & Editions Eclipse, 2014) and CELL (MonoD Press, 2016).

View Amanda's book, S ACE P, at Eclipse Archive, here.

Olga Mikolaivna

Originally from Kyiv, Olga lives in San Diego and works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography, word, translation, and installation.

See Olga's website here.

Samantha Walton

Samantha is an academic, poet, and small-press publisher who leads the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University. She has a recent monograph on Nan Shepherd, and works poetically on the eco-gothic and fragmented lyric, as in Bad Moon (Spam Press, 2021).