Ink Well Poetry

Inkwell Poetry is excited to announce our June mentor Hannah Dierdorff and their workshop “Elsewhere & Here: An Ecstatic Approach to Ecopolitics.”

What is the role of poetry in an environmental crisis? Can a poetics of ecstasy, through decentering the self, move us toward the care and action our current moment requires?

In this educational and generative session, we’ll look at several poems that reimagine the space between ecstasy, environmentalism, and ethics and discuss the limits and possibilities of language within each. Poets studied may include Mary Oliver, Jake Skeets, Brenda Hillman, CA Conrad, MaKshya Tolbert, and Daniela Naomi Molnar.

After studying how ecopoets resist the logic of violence, you’ll respond with your own writing. Together, we’ll explore how responsibility to each other can be a kind of ecstasy that removes us from our illusions of control and moral purity, creating space for desire and grief to exist alongside.

All levels welcome.

The presentation will be followed by a one-hour Q&A segment where attendees can ask Dierdorff questions about the topics covered as well as receive feedback on their own writing throughout the workshop. Announcements of Clark County current and future opportunities, events, and services will close out the workshop. Attendees will receive a copy of the announcements through email. This workshop will be recorded.

Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1990101849203?aff=oddtdtcreator

Event Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026

Event Time: 10:00am-12:00pm PST