Merry Lea to Offer Poetry of Nature Workshop
Saturday, June 12, 2010 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Writers who love the outdoors will gather at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College, Saturday, June 12, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. for a day of word play among some of Indiana's finest wetlands, woodlands and prairies. Poet Todd Davis will team up with ecologist
Mary Linton to offer inspiration and guidance in the kinds of settings that inspired William Wordsworth, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, and Jane Kenyon.
About the Presenters:
Dr. Todd Davis teaches creative writing and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in such journals and magazines as The North American Review, Indiana Review, Iowa Review, West Branch, River Styx, Arts & Letters, Quarterly West, Green Mountains Review, Poetry East, Many Mountains Moving, Natural Bridge, Epoch, Rattle, The Louisville Review, The Nebraska Review, and Image. Davis is the author of two books of poetry, Ripe (2002) and Some Heaven, (2007). Davis has worshiped and lived among Mennonites for most of his life. He is currently a member of the University Mennonite Church in State College, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Mary Linton is a wetland ecologist with an emphasis on the biology of top wetland predators. She taught college biology/ecology for 19 years, including 13 years at Goshen College where she served as the Lindsey Fellow at Merry Lea. Linton studies tiger salamanders, Blanding’s turtles and predaceous diving beetles in Wisconsin’s wetlands. Her poetry has appeared in Appalachia, Aethlon, Blueline, Builder, Country Feedback Magazine, Poetry Motel, and Seeding the Snow.
About the Setting:
Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College, is an 1,189-acre nature preserve just south of Wolflake, IN, midway between Goshen, IN and Fort Wayne, IN. Summer will be on the upswing at the time of this workshop, with trees in new leaf, songbirds defending their nests and dragonflies skimming the marshes. Meet at the Farmstead Site.
Registration Details:
The registration fee is $90 and includes lunch. To register, email jenniferhs@goshen.edu or call 260-799-5869 by June 3. To learn more about Merry Lea, visit www.goshen.edu/merrylea.
Ann Hostetler
This will be awesome!