Events
River Writing is for everyone and we'd love to welcome you to the table. If the $40 tuition presents a barrier to your participation, please request sliding scale. If you'd like to dive in a bit deeper, consider joining a multi-week series. Click here to see our current schedule.
2 Hours @ the Table with Moudi on 11/25/24
Tuesday, November 25th
6:00 - 8:00 pm MST
Meeting on Zoom
About Moudi
Everyone Welcome! (+16) Sliding scale available.
Limited to 8 participants
About River Writing
We create a friendly place to practice by making community agreements. We read poetry aloud to find prompts and then write with pen and paper to say the truest things we can say. Before beginning, we agree to be kind, to keep each other’s confidence, and to listen to each other with undivided attention. We agree to take care of ourselves and to share responsibility for creating a welcoming space. Everyone is invited. We practice non-judgement by forgoing apology, critique, and praise. It can be challenging not to praise each other, but we choose to opt out temporarily in order to take respite from the culture of comparison. Sharing your writing is optional. When you choose to read, we respond simply by saying thank you.
An irreplaceable Reading online with Terry Tempest Williams & Eli Nixon 12/5/24
A celebration of the publication of irreplaceable:
a collective praise poem for Great Salt Lake.
Free with registration, everyone is invited!
Wednesday, November 20th 6-7 pm MST
On Zoom
Our Readers
Terry Tempest Williams
Moudi Sbeity
Willy Paloma
Paula Volpin Evershed
Gary Evershed
Taylor Jenson
Tiffany Burns
Kai Lameman
Bree Matheson
Erin Geesaman Rabke
Eli Nixon
nan seymour
About the Book
The newly published irreplaceable: a collective praise poem for Great Salt Lake, composed by the poet nan seymour, is a community prayer for the replenishment of an ecosystem on a precipice. The book begins with a forward by Terry Tempest Williams which underscores the peril of this irreplaceable refuge and hemispherically essential lake.
Over 400 voices sing their praises in this chorus: sixth graders, brine shrimpers, birders, queer artists, Indigenous elders, scientists, and spell-casters, alongside scores of others who proclaim this lake beloved. The poem is still being written as the vigil keepers write, sing, and dance in celebration of the sacred lake and all of the species she sustains. They dedicate their jubilance, grief, and reverence as they invite readers to join in bearing witness. Every voice counts. Our work will be finished when the lake is replenished and her personal right to flourish is fully protected.