Poetic Time with Heather Swan
Poetic Time with Heather Swan
Join us via Zoom on Wednesday, July 22nd, at 7 pm EDT
Like photography, the imagery and language of poetry can take us into time, out of time, beyond time. Heather Swan's poetry investigates the mysteries of human presence in landscapes of deep time, insect time, lake time, times of grief and times of elation. She will share poems and approaches that overlap the art of image-making with the lens and image-making with words.
Together we will ponder: Can photography and poetry bring us closer to the ways that more-than-human-beings inhabit time, and how might we learn from their perspectives?
Alongside this dymanic talk, Heather will also share a poem as a prompt and invite collaborators to respond with images. Together we will weave the images made in response to the poem into a collaborative offering that will be featured on the Kinship website.
Heather Swan is the author of the poetry collections Dandelion and A Kinship with Ash. Her work as appeared in Terrain, The Hopper, Poet Lore, and many anthologies including The Kinship Series and The Nature of Our Times. She is also the author of two books of prose about insects, Where Honeybees Thrive and Where the Grass Still Sings. She has been awarded the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, the August Derleth Award and an Illinois Arts Council Grant. She lives in the land of bumblebees, barred owls, muskrats and queen anne's lace.
Instagram: @beegood2bees
Website: https://www.heatherswan.net/
