Name: Poems for Rewilding: Musings on Nature and Natural States
Start: 2025-05-17T15:30:00-0700
End: 2025-05-17T16:30:00-0700

Lit Crawl Sebastopol is a project of SebArts and The Litquake Foundation. San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival runs October 9-25, 2025, with affiliated Lit Crawls across the United States and around the world.

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT

The Toyworks

All five poets for our session are current students or alumni of the Dominican University of California’s Creative Writing MFA program in Poetry. The readings will focus on themes of Nature and the concept of rewilding, with each poet sharing 2-3 short pieces; all of our participants are seasoned performers (most of us collaborated on a memory-themed poetry reading at the SF LitCrawl 2024, which received an award for “Best Interactive Arts Event”).

Speakers

Hawa Amin-Arsala

Oratory

Hawa is a symbologist of social change and innovation. While most comfortable in liminal spaces, she considers Washington D.C. and Afghanistan two geographies of origin.Her transdisciplinary practice has touched the worlds of fine art, fashion, tech, media, diplomacy and journalism... Read More →

Deidre Cavazzi

Deidre Cavazzi is a poet and choreographer who lives in Rohnert Park. She is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at Dominican University this June, and has been an artist in residence in far flung places like Svalbard, Iceland and Ireland, exploring intersections between art and... Read More →

Eric Kightley

Eric Kightley lives in Berkeley and is an MFA student at Dominican University of California. He likes to read and write fiction and poetry.

Matt Raymond

Matt Raymond’s poetry is often in celebration and contemplation of the natural world; he is currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing at Dominican University of California.

Nichole Turnbloom

Nichole Turnbloom is a poet, yoga therapist, amateur potter and workshop facilitator, based in Sebastapol. She has an MFA in poetry from Dominican University and has completed additional training through the Institute for Poetic Medicine. You can read her work at Acumen 108, forthcoming... Read More →

Carson Wignall

Carson Wignall views writing as a form of spiritual discipline, and poetry as a way to transform personal confession into mythic imagination, dwelling on the tension between seeking transcendence and living as a divided self. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Philosophy... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
The Toyworks 6940 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Nature and the Open Road

Lit Crawl Sebastopol 2025