Poetry as Land: A Reading by Native American and South African Poets
Registration recommended.
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A Performance and Reading by Rehane Abrahams, Kinsale Drake, Heid E. Erdrich, Bonney Hartley, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Jolyn Phillips. A Reading by Native American and South African Poets. Introduced by Gabeba Baderoon.
Programming Series: Poetry.
Thursday, June 25, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM.
Williams Chapel, Swartz Hall, Cambridge, MA & Zoom.
For more info visit docs.google.com. Exploring Spirituality in Nature Writing: A Writing Workshop Series in Creative Nonfiction
Registration is required and limited to 12 participants.
This workshop series meets on four consecutive Wednesdays: September 9, 16, 23, and 30, from 4-6 pm. Because each session builds on the previous one, participants are expected to attend all four sessions.
Please register to attend in person.
When William Ellery Channing claimed in an 1828 sermon that “we are brought into harmony with the creation” in proportion to our pursuit of our own “likeness to God,” he could not have known that his theology would help inspire a literary tradition that continues to explore spiritual growth through encounters with the natural world. American nature writing developed some of its strongest roots in the ideas of Channing and the American Transcendentalists he influenced. Emerson explored selfhood and spirituality through nature, famously writing of standing in the woods and sensing that he was “part and parcel of God.” Thoreau likewise wrote of the spiritual expansiveness he experienced through his connection with the…
Programming Series: Transcendentalism. Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator
ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Conference Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave. Cambridge, MA.
For more info visit cswr.hds.harvard.edu. Exploring Spirituality in Nature Writing: A Writing Workshop Series in Creative Nonfiction
Registration is required and limited to 12 participants.
This workshop series meets on four consecutive Wednesdays: September 9, 16, 23, and 30, from 4-6 pm. Because each session builds on the previous one, participants are expected to attend all four sessions.
Please register to attend in person.
When William Ellery Channing claimed in an 1828 sermon that “we are brought into harmony with the creation” in proportion to our pursuit of our own “likeness to God,” he could not have known that his theology would help inspire a literary tradition that continues to explore spiritual growth through encounters with the natural world. American nature writing developed some of its strongest roots in the ideas of Channing and the American Transcendentalists he influenced. Emerson explored selfhood and spirituality through nature, famously writing of standing in the woods and sensing that he was “part and parcel of God.” Thoreau likewise wrote of the spiritual expansiveness he experienced through his connection with the…
Programming Series: Transcendentalism. Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator
ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Conference Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave. Cambridge, MA.
For more info visit cswr.hds.harvard.edu.