Poetry Workshop with Jermaine

ARA Film and Poet Fellow Jermaine Thompson brought dozens of poets together at Ruffner Mountain for a workshop on eco-poetry as he sees it. The poets were inspired by a bird we encountered during the workshop and wrote their own perspectives of the experience.

Here is a sampling of the poems created that day. Special thank you to Ruffner Mountain for their inspiration and for hosting this workshop.

Philopatry by Jermaine Thompson

Burst by Stella Pfau

At Ruffner Mountain by Tina Mozelle Braziel

Banding a Migratory Bird by Emily Northrop

These poems were created as part of the Alabama Poetry Delegation, a partnership between Alabama Poetry Laureate Ashley M. Jones, and the Alabama Writers Forum. It is supported by the Academy of American Poets and the Mellon Foundation.