Mindful U at Naropa University
Thoughts and Instruction on Mindfulness in Higher Education
Displaying all 2 Episode of Mindful U at Naropa University with the tag “summer writing program”.
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109. The Journey of a Poet
May 22nd, 2025 | 56 mins 51 secs
ecopoetics, naropa, naropa university, poet, poetry, summer writing program, writing
Born in California on Walt Whitman’s birthday, Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, and "a master of mixing genres." She grew up in earshot of the ocean, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara, and has since lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Athens (Greece), Boulder (Colorado), and Providence. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral lineages.
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108. The Path and Craft of Fiction Writing
May 1st, 2025 | 53 mins 2 secs
author, brown university, fiction, naropa, poetry, storytelling, summer writing program
Laird Hunt—author, professor at Brown University, alumnx of Naropa’s MFA Creative Writing program, Naropa Summer Writing Program faculty—takes us on the journey of finding his writing voice, the experiences that allowed him to become a published author and teacher, and what he believes about what it takes to make it as a writer.