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Integrating Field Recordings, Photos, & Video into Poetry

An Inland Northwest Poetry Salon Workshop with Greg Bem

A workshop that will inspire local poets to find ways to deepen their relationship with the natural world. This is part of the first annual Inland Northwest Poetry Salon.

In this presentation, writer Greg Bem will discuss his mixed media practice and how it relates to contemporary eco-poetics. Refined over many years of hiking and exploring the wilderness in the Northwest, Greg's practice—capturing field recordings, still images, and video—can help form the poem while also defining our relationship to the land, to natural systems and ecologies, and to ecological imperatives. This workshop will inspire other local writers to find ways to deepen their relationship with the natural world throughout the Inland Northwest.

We might venture outside for this—expect to walk on an uphill trail. Bring good walking shoes and weather gear!

This is one of eleven poetry events occurring at the first annual Inland Northwest Poetry Salon on June 1st.This first-annual, day-long event at the Liberty Park Library (402 S. Pittsburg Street) will feature panels, poetry workshops and a bevy of local writers. The Inland NW Poetry Salon celebrates the craft of poetry, spotlights regional poets, and welcomes participants in all phases of their writing lives.

Greg Bem (he/him) currently resides in Spokane where he is a librarian at Spokane Community College. Recently arrived after 13 years in Seattle, he has since started Carbonation Press and is an active volunteer at Spark Central. Raised in Southern Maine, Greg has spent time in Rhode Island, Philadelphia, and Cambodia. Since 2010, Greg has co-designed, co-organized, and co-hosted countless arts and literary events. He currently co-runs the multidisciplinary Foray series in Spokane with poet and performer Sarah Rooney. His own work concerns ecologies and natural environments, and bridges literary forms with sound poetry, field recordings, ambient and noise music, and performance art. He is the author of several books, including Of Spray and Mist (Hand to Mouth, 2019), Green Axis (Alien Buddha, 2019), Like salt. Like a spine. (with Maung Day), and Pushing Through Glass (Carbonation Press, 2023). You can learn more at gregbem.com.

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