Michael Hettich
Writing Earth -- An Intro to Environmental Writing
Six Tuesdays: June 9-July 14, 2009, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
$125 (Current MDC faculty and credit students: $100)

Course will take place at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
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In this six-week workshop we will write and critique poems, stories and personal essays that take the natural world as their subject matter. In addition, we will attempt various writing exercises designed to develop students’ abilities to write in organic forms and to think in ways that attempt to capture something of the “inner life” of nature as it exists in South Florida and the larger North American landscape. We will also examine examples of great nature writing as we attempt to extend and deepen our conception of the genre’s possibilities.

 Michael Hettich has published a number of books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently Flock and Shadow: New and Selected Poems (New Rivers Press) and Swimmer Dreams (Turning Point), both of which were published in 2005. His most recent chapbook, Many Loves, was published in 2007. A new book, Like Happiness, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in 2010. His poems have appeared in such journals as Witness, Poetry East, Orion, Prairie Schooner, and TriQuarterly. His website is www.michaelhettich.com.

Date and Time
Tuesdays
June 9-July 14, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Fee
$125, pre-registration required

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.

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