Mass Poetry is hosting a virtual event “Listening Under Water: Generative Poetry Workshop with Elizabeth Bradfield” on March 11, 2021 from 7:00PM-9:00PM EST.
Join Mass Poetry for our workshop series on Poetry and Environmental Justice!
About this Event:
Whether it is the songs of bearded seals, the echolocation of sperm whales, or the underwater soundscapes created by industrial (and industrious) humans, sound in the ocean is vastly significant. Light can only penetrate so far into the depths, but sound travels further in water than in air, and animals use it to find each other, avoid each other, navigate, and croon. Poet/naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield will delve into some of the natural history of ocean sound and we'll listen, learn, and explore together, discovering what poems and poetic soundscapes might be shaped by our listening.
Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, Approaching Ice, and Interpretive Work as well as Theorem, a collaboration with artist Antonia Contro. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Kenyon Review, and her honors include the Audre Lorde Prize and a Stegner Fellowship. Editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press, she works as a marine naturalist/guide and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. To learn more, visit her at www.ebradfield.com.
About the Poetry Coalition: Mass Poetry is a member of a national alliance of organizations dedicated to promoting the value of poetry in our culture. Each year, we produce a series of programming that connects to a theme of the Coalition’s choosing. 2021 is the year of Poetry and Environmental Justice, as it is more important and necessary than ever to consider the future of our planet. Join us in the month of March for a series of workshops where participants can create works of ecopoetry and engage in discussion on environmental justice. To learn more, visit our website.
***This workshop is sold out but those who are interested can join the waitlist. Elizabeth Bradfield is also teaching a remote, multi-week ekphrastic poetry workshop with Provincetown Art Association and Museum on Thursdays in March 2021. To learn more about the workshops and to sign up, visit the PAAAm's website.