CRW 270 Creative Writing on Nature and the Environment
What is "environmental creative writing?" How do we know when we've read it, or written it? How do we ourselves write about nature, ecology, science, and place in ways that are both thoughtful and creative? In this class we'll explore these questions, reading a variety of authors, ranging from some environmental classics (Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Rachel Carson, Mary Oliver, Edward Abbey, and others) to the contemporary and strange (Julianna Baggott, Forrest Gander, Edward Hoagland, Carol Frost, Elif Batumen, Amy Clampitt, Sarah Lindsay, Jennifer Atkinson, Joy Williams,environment in creative works of our own. Interaction with the environment and nature will be encouraged as part of the class. An interdisciplinary class: students with a passion for nature and/or science are welcome even if they have taken no creative writing classes before.