EWP 311 is a writing-intensive literature course designed for ESF students who want to read, discuss, and write about urban nature literature.
We’ll read an essay by a writer who canoes around Manhattan, an essay by a writer who contemplates Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Zoo, an interview with a woman who created a community garden, and a poem that describes a peregrine falcon diving between skyscrapers, plus other poems, stories, and essays written by city dwellers.
We will examine the city as home, as nature, and as the place where the ecological crisis has become evident.
We’ll read an essay by a writer who canoes around Manhattan, an essay by a writer who contemplates Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Zoo, an interview with a woman who created a community garden, and a poem that describes a peregrine falcon diving between skyscrapers, plus other poems, stories, and essays written by city dwellers.
We will examine the city as home, as nature, and as the place where the ecological crisis has become evident.
