EIU Booth Library

Be an Animal: A Workshop with Megan Kaminski

Posted on April 2nd, 2021

This is one of a series of programs being sponsored in conjunction with EIU Booth Library’s NEA Big Read program. For more details visit https://www.eiu.edu/booth/bigread/.

Tuesday, April 20, 10-11 a.m., virtual event on Zoom
Recommended ages: Grades 3-5
Sponsored by the Tarble Arts Center

Be an Animal is a workshop that will look to our animal kin for inspiration. We’ll explore other ways of seeing, being and inhabiting this world as a point for opening our own creative potential. We’ll learn lots from our more-than-human friends, discover new things about ourselves, and write some poems. To participate in this workshop, register for free on Eventbrite.

A Zoom link will be emailed to registered attendees two hours before the event start time. For more information contact the Tarble Arts Center at 217-581-2787 or email tarble@eiu.edu.

Megan Kaminski is a poet and essayist, and the author of three books of poetry, “Deep City,” “Desiring Map,” and a new book, “Gentlewomen” (Noemi Press 2020), which explores care, trauma, and resilience as well as our estrangement from the natural world and from ourselves through the conceit of a trio of allegorical sisters. Her current public-facing work, in the form of the prairie divination deck and Ad Astra Project, focuses on helping people connect to their own ecosystems as a source of knowledge and inspiration for strategies to live in their world, to grieve and heal after loss, and to realign their thinking toward kindship, community and sustainability.

An associate professor in English and co-director of the Global Grasslands CoLABorative at the University of Kansas, Kaminski specializes in poetry and poetics, queer ecology, somatics, and the environmental humanities. Her work is informed by interdisciplinary research in social welfare, evolutionary biology and philosophy, as well as previous work in the healing arts and at non-profit environmental organizations.