Floating Above this Difficult World: The Importance of Writing the Outdoors with Wonder

A combined talk/reading by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Professor of English (State University of New York at Fredonia) and 2016-17 Grisham Writer-in-Residence (University of Mississippi), in which she will explore a different way of thinking about environment and discuss “wonder” as an ecological love practice in nature writing.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s fourth book of poetry, Oceanic, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon and her nature essay collection is forthcoming from Milkweed in 2018. She is poetry editor of Orion Magazine.
Sponsored by the Franklin Environmental Center, Program in Environmental Studies, and Bread Loaf Orion Writers’ Conference