Thomas Rain Crowe offers four-week class “Reading and Writing in Place: a Four Week Class”

The class takes place at The North Carolina Arboretum, Saturdays, April 25, May 2, 9, 16. Registration at ncarboretumregistration.org.

Press release from The North Carolina Arboretum:

Reading and Writing in Place: a Four Week Class
Instructor: Thomas Rain Crowe
Saturdays, April 25, May 2, 9, 16; 10:30 a.m. to Noon
$89 Member/$97 Non-member
Limit: 25 students
This is a writing and discussion class designed for those interested in writing about place; where they live, favorite places, special or sacred places, with an emphasis on nature-writing. The class will focus on Thomas’ 2005 award-winning nature memoir “Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods” which will serve as a required text for the class in terms of generating ideas and discussion for student projects. One of the goals of this class is to heighten awareness of the essential and pristine qualities of the natural world in order to begin to speak and write about the beauty of the Southern Appalachians and the issues that threaten the bioregion. Students will undertake self-generated assignments to start their own explorations as beginning or experienced writers and benefit from the experience of others in the class. A printed anthology of student writings may result from this four-week course.

Thomas Rain Crowe is a prize-winning poet and an internationally-published author of thirty books, including the multi-award winning book of nonfiction “Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods.” This memoir in the style of Thoreau’s “Walden” is based on four years of self-sufficient living off the grid in a wilderness environment in the woods of western North Carolina from 1979 to 1982. Other books include “The End of Eden: Writings of an Environmental Activist,” 2009 (essays); “A House of Girls” (autobiographical fiction) and “Crack Light,” 2011 (poetry). He is founder and publisher of New Native Press and has worked as an editor with Beatitude magazine, Katuah Journal and the Asheville Poetry Review. His literary archives have been purchased by the Duke University Special Collections Library. He lives in the Tuckasegee community of rural western North Carolina.