Dear River

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