Though it is too simple to say that walking is writing for Thoreau, the connection - rhythm, presence, heightened awareness, physicality - are all part of both the walk and the words of Thoreau. With Thoreau’s essay “Walking” as a “guide” we will walk, experience, explore, find a center and a rhythm within the walk itself that has a measure we can keep. Notation, response, some sharing, some solitude, and some conversation with the nature will structure this literary pilgrimage.
A day or two prior to the walk date, participants are asked to read :
WALKING / Annotated Edition / by Thoreau / J.Missouri www.missouri.com / 2013THE JOURNAL 1837-1861 / Henry David Thoreau / edited by Damion Searls, preface by John R. Stilgoe / New York Review Books / 2009
Leave cell-phones at home, or in your cars. Bring a small journal/notebook/sketchbook and writing implement.
Jim LaVilla-Havelin is a poet, educator, and community arts activist. He is the Poetry Editor for the San Antonio Express-News and the Coordinator of National Poetry Month activities in San Antonio. In the late 1960’s LaVilla-Havelin spent a night a Walden Pond.
Registration is required.
Free Admission - Donations Welcomed
Registration opens on November 13, 2021.
