Poetry Workshop Resources for “Dear River: Writing Our Watersheds”
This workshop is modeled on the Dear Body of Water project from Poets for Science.
River & Water poems:
A river slips by Cole Swensen
White Egret by Chris Abani
At the Equinox by Arthur Sze
Nebi by Cheryl Savageau
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Eraldo Souza dos Santos
What the Creek Says by Tina Mozelle Brazielle
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
Books:
Theory of Water: Nishanaabe Maps to the Times Ahead by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Is a River Alive by Robert MacFarlane
Meltwater by Claire Wamanholm