Poetry Workshop with Jermaine Thompson

ARA Film and Poet Fellow Jermaine Thompson brought dozens of poets together at Ruffner Mountain for a workshop on eco-poetry. 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 and to Alabama Audubon for introducing us to our bird!

 

Philopatry by Jermaine Thompson

Burst by Stella Pfau

At Ruffner Mountain by Tina Mozelle Braziel

Banding a Migratory Bird by Emily Northrop

 

 

Jermaine Thompson’s Workshop, where these poems were created, is a project of the Alabama Poetry Delegation, a Magic City Poetry Festival service initiative developed from 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.