A NOTE FROM MC: My writing--especially in my forthcoming book, Walks & Weathers--comes out of a life of reading, writing, and talking about texts and ideas. A lot of my reading, writing, and talking has happened in classrooms (and, in the past five years, in zoom rooms). I decided that, for that reason, the best way to celebrate this new book would be to create some classroom-inspired situations for reading, writing, and talking about the book's subjects: walking and weather.  

Each class will feature a reading list and a shared folder of optional out-of-class readings and resources, available a week before the start of class. Each of our meetings will include portions where we: 1) read and discuss texts together, 2) experiment and write with a set of structured prompts, and 3) share and discuss our writing from the day.

Some of the authors we'll likely look at in the Weather class (January 2026) are: Lisa Robertson, Renee Gladman, Bernadette Mayer, Zane Koss, Stephen Collis, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Stephen Ratcliffe, Dorothy Wordsworth, Anne Carson. In each session we'll focus on one of these topics: 1) weather as noticing and change, 2) anthropocene weathers, 3) forms of weather/forms of poems. 

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