How to Fall Down Into the Grass: Writing from the Natural World • Live on Zoom

$35.00

Taking inspiration from Mary Oliver's poem, "The Summer Day," we will look to the outdoors for observation and inspiration for several new poem drafts.

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Taking inspiration from Mary Oliver's poem, "The Summer Day," we will look to the outdoors for observation and inspiration for several new poem drafts.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the New York Times best-selling author of the forthcoming poetry book, Night Owl (Mar. 2026), and two illustrated collections of essays, Bite by Bite and World of Wonders: Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments. She also wrote four previous award-winning poetry collections, and with the poet Ross Gay, she co-authored the chapbook Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and The Paris Review.