Out of the Box - Reading the Landscape / Writing the Walk

500 North Harbor Drive,Milwaukee WI 53202

20 June, 2021

Description

A pen and paper hike at Lakeshore State Park! Let’s practice reading the landscape and explore the creative tensions at play with poets and writers including Walt Whitman, Lorine Niedecker, Harryette Mullen, and Yoko Ono. After sharing these writers aloud, we’ll walk the perimeter of Lakeshore State Park with pencil and paper in hand, allowing language to emerge with the rhythm of walking. This program concludes with a chance to discuss our own notes and observations in an intimate, conversational setting. With special guest Moheb Soliman, poet and author of HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021). Chuck Stebelton is author most recently of An Apostle Island (Oxeye Press, 2021). His previous poetry collections include The Platformist (Cultural Society, 2012) and Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). He served as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center from 2005 to 2017. As a poet and Wisconsin Master Naturalist volunteer he has offered writing workshops and interpretive hikes for conservancy groups and non-profit organizations including Milwaukee Public Library, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Friends of Lorine Niedecker, and the Lynden Sculpture Garden. He has held residencies at Lynden Sculpture Garden in 2011, 2014, and from 2018 to 2021 ongoing. Book Link - https://www.oxeyepress.org/stebelton-apostle-island Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest who's presented poetry, performance, installation and video work at diverse art and public spaces in the US and Canada with support from numerous foundations and institutions. HOMES is the culmination of over a decade of writing through Great Lakes-based travel, partnerships, and projects as well as multiple homes around the region. He currently lives in Minneapolis, MN, where he was Program Director for the Arab American lit and film organization Mizna before going rogue on an arts career. www.mohebsoliman.info Meet up is 9am June 20th at Lakeshore State Park - Meet us by the birds! Limited to 15 people - Get your free tickets now to register! For the entire Out of the Box series schedule, visit Blackboxfund.org