This breakthrough book examines dynamic intersections of poetics and geography. Gathering the essays of an international cohort whose work converges at the crossroads of poetics and the material world, Geopoetics in Practice offers insights into poetry, place, ecology, and writing the world through a critical-creative geographic lens.

List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Introduction: Geopoetics as Route-Finding; Part 1: Documenting 1. Bodies Belong to the World: On Place, Visuality, and Vulnerability; 2. A Cosmology of Nibi: Picto-Poetics and Palimpsest in Anishinaabeg Watery Geographies; 3. Terma: A Dialogue; 4. All Visuals Have Sound: The Verbalization of Geography and the Sound of Landscape; 5. Karankawa Carancahua Carancagua Karankaway: Centering Indigenous Presence in Southeast Texas; 6. Geopoetics of Intime and ( SUND ): Performing Geochronology in the North Atlantic; 7. Seismic, or Topogorgical, Poetry; 8. rout/e; Part 2: Reading 9. Lyric Geography; 10. Ekphrastic Poetry as Method; 11. The Topopoetics of Dwelling as Preservation in Lorine Niedecker's Paean to Place; 12. Poking Holes in the Colonial Canoe: Creative Writing as Intervention in a 19th-Century Travel Writing Narrative; 13. Thukela Poswayo's Poetry of Dwelling; 14. Islote Poetics: Notes from Minor Outlying Islands; 15. The Unbending of the Faculties: Learning from Frederick Law Olmsted; 16. Borne-away: Tracing a Gendered Dispossession by Accumulation; Part 3: Intervening 17. The Limits and Promise of Urbopoetics: washpark, Collaboration, and Pedestrian Practice; 18. Geopoetics as Collaborative Encounter: Performing Poetic Political Ecologies of the Colorado River; 19. Negro-Mountain-Wolves/Notes on Region; 20. Hurricane Poetics and Crip Psychogeographies; 21. Geopoetics, via Germany; 22. Indigenous Pacific Islander Geopoetics; 23. Agitating a Copper Lyre; Or, Geolyricism for the Age of Digital Reproduction; 24. The Poetic Lexicon of Waste: From Asarotos Oikos (A) to Flowers (F); Contributor Bios; Acknowledgements; Index