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Tuesday, May 26th, 2:00-4:00 PM CT FREE PASS

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This 2-hour workshop focuses on personification, the literary device that recognizes the personhood of the non-human. We will look at ancient and contemporary poems that use personification to reanimate the world. Through readings, discussion, and guided creative activities, we will explore personification as a practice that can connect us to the kind of language Robin Wall Kimmerer describes in “Speaking of Nature:” “where [b]irds, bugs, and berries are spoken of with the same respectful grammar as humans are, as if we were all members of the same family. Because we are.”

This 2-hour workshop focuses on personification, the literary device that recognizes the personhood of the non-human. We will look at ancient and contemporary poems that use personification to reanimate the world. Through readings, discussion, and guided creative activities, we will explore personification as a practice that can connect us to the kind of language Robin Wall Kimmerer describes in “Speaking of Nature:” “where [b]irds, bugs, and berries are spoken of with the same respectful grammar as humans are, as if we were all members of the same family. Because we are.”