Body, Senses & Sacredness in Ecological Poetics: A Writing Lab with Felicia Zamora

$50.00

Our bodies are the first environment. What we know of the more-than-human world is through our body’s interpretations and translations. Ecological liberatory practice begins in the intimate, the specific, the localized, and the somatic. Understanding how you dwell with the earth arises from understanding the intricacies of what you hold sacred, your own sensuous entanglement, and listening as both a cognitive and bodily act. In this generative and sharing-focused workshop guided by Felicia Zamora, we’ll discuss giving oneself over to the more-than-human, to place, and to landscape. By looking at nano-excerpts from N. Scott Momaday, bell hooks, No‘u Revilla, Oliver Baez Bendorf, and Craig Santos Perez, we’ll prime our thinking on how to bodily commune with the more-than-human, the role surrender plays in our ecological writing and constructing ideas of sacredness.

Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12-1:30 PM Central Time
Live online

Our bodies are the first environment. What we know of the more-than-human world is through our body’s interpretations and translations. Ecological liberatory practice begins in the intimate, the specific, the localized, and the somatic. Understanding how you dwell with the earth arises from understanding the intricacies of what you hold sacred, your own sensuous entanglement, and listening as both a cognitive and bodily act. In this generative and sharing-focused workshop guided by Felicia Zamora, we’ll discuss giving oneself over to the more-than-human, to place, and to landscape. By looking at nano-excerpts from N. Scott Momaday, bell hooks, No‘u Revilla, Oliver Baez Bendorf, and Craig Santos Perez, we’ll prime our thinking on how to bodily commune with the more-than-human, the role surrender plays in our ecological writing and constructing ideas of sacredness.

Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12-1:30 PM Central Time
Live online

This is a live, participatory lab and it will not be recorded. A meeting link will be emailed a few days prior to the lab. Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to the lab and will be charged a $10 cancellation fee. Partial scholarships may be available. Apply here by 11/10/25.

Felicia Zamora is the author of eight books of poetry including, Murmuration Archives, Akrilica Series, Noemi Press (2026), Interstitial Archaeology, Wisconsin Poetry Series (2025), I Always Carry My Bones, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize (2021) and the 2022 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, Body of Render, Benjamin Saltman Award winner (2020), and Of Form & Gather, Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize winner (2017). She’s won the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, C.P. Cavafy Prize, Wabash Prize, Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards (2024 & 2022). She has been supported by a Tin House Next Book Residency, Yaddo Residency, Ragdale Fellowship, and CantoMundo Fellowship. Her writing appears in Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2022, Boston Review, Brevity, Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, The Missouri Review, Orion, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, and others. She is a poetry editor for Colorado Review, a contributing editor for West Branch, and an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati where she is a 2025-2026 Taft Research Center Fellow.