Nature, poetry and environmental collapse with Moheb Soliman

The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA), Mizna and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) invite you to the third installment of the Sarkisian Workshop Series: Nature, Poetry and Environmental Collapse with Moheb Soliman. The virtual workshop will take place on May 31, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. Pacific | 12:00 p.m. Eastern | 8:00 p.m. Armenia time.

Poetry has a singular capacity to capture our obscure relationship with the non-human living world. But how can this adapt to a world fraught with threats of environmental collapse? Through ecopoetic texts and writers as well as Moheb’s own work about the Great Lakes region, this workshop will explore how contemporary nature writers can navigate between romanticizing the natural sphere, eulogizing its death and poeticizing environmentalism. Together, we will discuss and write about our experiences embodying and rendering natural-cultural spaces and reckon with human desire, humility, alienation and ambivalence in this era where nature poetry and climate change must co-exist.