This class is meant to offer a follow-up conversation to the recent Mary Oliver and the Art of Observation class. In this session we will concentrate our time on coming to understand Oliver's poetry by reading and understanding selections from her remarkably self-reflective and always poetically succinct short essays taken from a variety of collections including Long Life, Winter Hours, Upstream and Owls and Other Fantasies. We will also offer time for prompt responses. Limited to the first 100 registrants.

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Troy Hess

Troy has been following the poetry of Mary Oliver since his time earning an M.A. in poetry and teaching environmental literature at the college-level. He later went through the sustainability leadership course at Edgewood in Madison and created there On the Yahara Writing Center, a small education business that offers a variety of writing classes including The Mary Oliver Society, The Poetry of Wellbeing, and other Eco Poet Pioneers classes, as well as establishing a variety of writing and book groups around Madison. He has recently co-created Riverside Botanicals, a supplement small business combining botanical/floral design for individuals and events, as well as nature-centered, hands-on classes.