Explore the facets of eco-poetry and our connection to the earth in this workshop!
Time & Location
Sep 13, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Stone Soup Books, 402 W Main St, Waynesboro, VA 22980, USA
About
Explore the facets of eco-poetry and our connection to the earth.
What is it?
Why are we talking about it?
How does it differ from other poetry?
These questions and more will be discussed during this interactive workshop, which will include poetry readings, roundtable discussion, and a writing exercise.
This workshop will be moderated by Emily Hancock of St. Brigid Press and facilitated by J. Scott Price of The Writer's Well, and feature the following poet speakers:
Dr. Karenne Wood was an enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation and a linguistic anthropologist who directed the Virginia Indian Programs at the Virginia Center for the Humanities. In addition to teaching at the University of Virginia (which stands on Monacan ancestral land), Wood advocated for the rights and recognition of indigenous peoples in Virginia and beyond, from editing The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail (2007) to serving as repatriation director for the Association on American Indian Affairs. Wood was also an accomplished poet, with two award-winning books published by the University of Arizona Press, and many more poems anthologized in other volumes. We will be highlighting and honoring her cultural and poetic work as part of this event. She will be represented by her daughter Adrienne Brown.
Lesley Wheeler, Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, is the author of six poetry collections, most recentlyMycocosmic. which appeared on Lit Hub’s list of Notable Indie Books of 2025. Her other books include the hybrid memoir Poetry’s Possible Worlds and the novel Unbecoming. Wheeler’s work has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers, and the Sewanee Writers Workshop; their poems and essays have appeared in Poets & Writers, Orion, Poetry, Ecotone, and Massachusetts Review. She teaches in Lexington, Virginia.
Sarah Ann Winn's first book, Alma Almanac, won the Barrow Street Book Prize. She is the author of five chapbooks, most recently, Ever After the End Matter. Sarah's led workshops in a variety of settings, from the Poetry Foundation, to classes hosted “in the wild,” on location at mall atriums, museums, and parks. In 2015 she founded Poet Camp, a warm online creative community which offers classes, morning jumpstarts, quarterly cozy writing retreats, and more. She is the grateful recipient of a grant from Rappahannock Association for Arts and Community's Claudia Mitchell Arts Fund. Find her at poetcamp.com.
Jeanne Larsen lives uphill from Tinker Creek, with a pretty good view of McAfee Knob. Her latest book is What Penelope Chooses: poems, winner of the Cider Press Review Award. She has published two other books of poetry (Why We Make Gardens, and James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita, an AWP award series winner), as well as four novels and two collections of translated poems by medieval Chinese women (Brocade River Poems and Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon). She was the inaugural Jackson Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University. More atjeannelarsen.com.
Emily Hancock has been reading and writing poetry since she was in elementary school, and worked as a bookseller for Stone Soup Books and Cafe in Waynesboro, Virginia, for 6 years. In the Autumn of 2011, that life-long love of classic and contemporary literature began to discover its unique expression through the handcrafts of traditional letterpress printing and bookbinding. As she slowly acquired antique printing presses, type, and equipment, she studied the centuries-old techniques with master printers, through deep reading in the field, and a Winter Residency in Letterpress at Penland School of Crafts.
Since then, Emily has created books, journals, posters, prints, bookmarks, and coasters, saying, “I am enjoying each project in the Shop — it is an honor and a great pleasure to spend my days caring for language, and for the traditional handcrafts that bring
