THE WALKING READERS’ GROUP: Walk monthly with up to fifteen fellow nature-lovers to enjoy shared outdoor times while considering a literary text together. Each month we meet in the parking lot of the Tidmarsh Sanctuary, owned by Massachusetts Audubon, to walk and talk about a specific book from which we read excerpts. We read poetry and prose that focus on the natural world.
EMAIL ME BEFORE EACH MEET-UP IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND SO WE CAN CONTROL OUR GROUP SIZE: Ellen’s email: esnoeyen8@gmail.com
Our Fall/Winter Meetup time will be 10 AM in the Main Parking Lot.
Feel free to invite others but just let me know when you do so we can keep to a fifteen person limit.
THE AGENDA FOR UPCOMING SESSIONS IS AS FOLLOWS:
December 7, 10 AM: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
January 4, 10 AM: You Are Here: Poetry of the Natural World edited by Ada Limon
February 1 10 AM: The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
March 1 10 AM: Bright Wings: an illustrated anthology of poems about birds, edited by Billy Collins, illustrated by David Sibley.
PAST SESSIONS:
2024:
November 9: Birding to Change the World by Trish O’Kane
October 12: Sparrow Envy by J.Drew Lanham
September 14: Forest Bathing by Qing Li
August 17: Poetry of the overlooked from the National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry
July 20: Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille T. Dungy
May 4: Poetry by Indigenous American Writers: Scott Momoday, Sherman Alexie, Joy Harjo, Maurice Kenney
April 6: Excerpts from Barry Lopez essays
March 30: Robert Frost Nature Poetry
February 24: Nature’s Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation by Kristy Hamilton
January 27: Devotions, more selections from Mary Oliver’s last anthology
2023:
December: Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery
November: Black Nature edited by Camille Dungy
October: The Heirloom Gardener by John Forti
September: Selected Poetry by Emily Dickinson
August: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
July: Selected Poetry by Wendell Berry
June: An Immense World by Ed Yong
May: Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
April: The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
March: Bright Wings edited by Billy Collins
February: The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Mongomery
January: Devotions by Mary Oliver
We'll do a little reading out loud of excerpts to discuss on each walk.
If the weather is horrible, we will reschedule.
Email me to be put on the group contact list: esnoeyen8@gmail.com