How does poetry write Earth, and how might such writing unsettle territory? This panel/seminar brings geopoetics into conversation with ecopoetry and the materiality of writing to explore how language, bodies, and earthly processes participate in the making—and unmaking—of place.

Paul Celan’s poetics offers one point of departure. His notes toward The Meridian associate poetic language with lapidary inscription and the displaced, resistant presence of an “erratic language-block.” Read through this lens, stone, soil, ash, and fossilized traces bear upon poetic form, shaping its fractures, …