On Wednesday, June 9, 2021, poet Sherwin Bitsui joins U.S. Botanic Garden Horticulturist Adam Pyle for a poetry workshop that will explore the natural world with prompts from the U.S. Botanic Garden. The workshop will focus on one of the many galleries inside the U.S. Botanic Garden: The Tropics, The Garden Primeval, the cacti of World Deserts, Medicinal Plants, and Orchids.
Bitsui and Pyle will probe the powerful link between the natural and poetic worlds. Following the discussion, workshop participants will hear the poet read his work as they begin to contemplate their own writing. Participants will take inspiration from a natural object within the Botanic Garden or from their own surroundings. Participants will have the opportunity to write their own poems as part of the workshop.
This program is a collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library and the U.S. Botanic Garden.
This virtual workshop will be presented via Zoom at 7:00pm Eastern Time (ET). Access links will be included in a reminder email closer to the event.