KWEC Pocket Poetry

In this workshop we will make and decorate small field guides that fit in our pockets. We will use these to record what we notice about migrating birds, the landscape, and ourselves. We will walk and read poems while we look for birds migrating through Cheyenne Bottoms. The generative walk-and-write session should fill your field guide with lines and images that can be turned into a poem. About the Presenter: Traci Brimhall is a professor of creative writing at Kansas State University. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Love Prodigal (Copper Canyon, 2024). Her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation, Orion, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Poetry. She’s received fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, the National Park Service, the Academy of American Poets, and Purdue Library’s Special Collections to study the lost poem drafts of Amelia Earhart. She’s the currently the poet-in-residence at the Guggenheim museum and poet laureate for the State of Kansas.