THE WALKING READERS’ GROUP: Walk monthly with up to fifteen fellow nature-lovers to enjoy shared outdoor times while considering a literary text together. Each month we meet in the parking lot of the Tidmarsh Sanctuary, owned by Massachusetts Audubon, to walk and talk about a specific book from which we read excerpts. We read poetry and prose that focus on the natural world.
EMAIL ME BEFORE EACH MEET-UP IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND SO WE CAN CONTROL OUR GROUP SIZE: Ellen’s email: esnoeyen8@gmail.com
Our Fall/Winter meetup time will be 10 AM in the Main Parking Lot.
Feel free to invite others but just let me know when you do so we can keep to a fifteen person limit.
THE AGENDA FOR UPCOMING SESSIONS IS AS FOLLOWS:
July 5, 8:30 AM: Native American poetry: Maurice Kenny
August - no walk
September 6, 10 AM - Forest Bathing by Qing Li
PAST SESSIONS:
2025:
June 7: Devotions by Mary Oliver
May 3: The Universe in Verse by Maria Popova
April 12: The Outermost House by Henry Beston
March 1: Bright Wings: poetry about birds edited by Billy Collins
February 1:The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
January 11:You Are Here: Poetry of the Natural World edited by Ada Limon
2024:
December 7: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
November 9: Birding to Change the World by Trish O’Kane
October 12: Sparrow Envy by J.Drew Lanham
September 14: Forest Bathing by Qing Li
August 17: Poetry of the overlooked from the National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry
July 20: Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille T. Dungy
May 4: Poetry by Indigenous American Writers: Scott Momoday, Sherman Alexie, Joy Harjo, Maurice Kenney
April 6: Excerpts from Barry Lopez essays
March 30: Robert Frost Nature Poetry
February 24: Nature’s Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation by Kristy Hamilton
January 27: Devotions, more selections from Mary Oliver’s last anthology
2023:
December: Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery
November: Black Nature edited by Camille Dungy
October: The Heirloom Gardener by John Forti
September: Selected Poetry by Emily Dickinson
August: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
July: Selected Poetry by Wendell Berry
June: An Immense World by Ed Yong
May: Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
April: The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
March: Bright Wings edited by Billy Collins
February: The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Mongomery
January: Devotions by Mary Oliver
We'll do a little reading out loud of excerpts to discuss on each walk.
If the weather is horrible, we will meet in the Manomet Public Library.
Email me to be put on the group contact list: esnoeyen8@gmail.com