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Beyond knowledge, there is also wisdom. What stories are waiting just beneath the surface of your notes? This poetry playshop invites you to write into the living worlds behind your work—opening space for embodied, relational ways of knowing to surface.

Long Abstract

What does your research sound like?

Where does it live in your body?

What stories are still waiting, just beneath the surface of your notes?

Political ecology is full of texture—mud, memory, conflict, care, resistance, longing. From these textures and encounters, a field rich with knowledge has taken shape, carefully gathered, analyzed, and shared. But alongside knowledge, there is also wisdom: the lived, embodied ways of knowing that emerge through experience, relationships, and time.

What might it look like to make space for that, too?

Across cultures, poetry has long been a vessel for this kind of knowing, allowing us to hold complexity, contradiction, grief, beauty, and possibility all at once.

In this interactive playshop, we’ll write our way into the living, breathing worlds behind our work. Through short poems and playful prompts, we’ll open doorways into our own experiences, entanglements, and inner wisdom.

We might write from the perspective of a river, a forest, or a border.

We might give voice to a place, a conversation, or a moment that lingers.

We might surprise ourselves with what surfaces.

This is a space to play with words, reflect, and connect with ourselves, with each other, and with the more-than-human worlds that shape our work.

No writing experience needed. All forms welcome: poetry, prose, fragments, notes. Sharing is always optional.

Come as you are—curious, tired, inspired, skeptical—and leave with a few new words, and maybe a slightly different way of seeing.