The Poetry Hiking Trail Workbook is a guided journal designed to help you write poetry while hiking. Here’s what’s included in the book:
Introduction: Explains the concept of combining hiking and poetry for mindfulness and creativity, with tips for using the workbook and a packing list.
Trailhead (Section 1): Prompts for starting your journey, including threshold poems, first impression haiku, and intention-setting exercises.
The Ascent (Section 2): Writing exercises focused on effort, body awareness, and poetic rhythm as you climb.
The Midpoint/Rest (Section 3): Prompts for stopping, observing the landscape, mapping sounds, and reflecting on the mountain as metaphor.
The Summit (Section 4): Exercises for documenting achievement, using the view for poetic inspiration, and writing haiku sequences that capture sensations, visuals, and emotions.
The Descent (Section 5): Prompts for exploring the feeling of going downhill, noting changes in yourself, finding details you missed, and writing quickly.
The Return (Section 6): Reflective exercises to capture what the trail gave you, who you were before and after the hike, and crafting a final poem integrating the journey’s highlights.
Post-Hike Craft (Section 7): Guides for revising your trail poems, harvesting best lines and images, uncovering metaphors, and considering poem sequence or series.
Bonus Exercises: Prompts for special trail conditions: rain, snow, heat, and night hiking.
Trail-Writing Techniques: Tips for writing on the move, using voice notes, collecting trail vocabulary, and finding organic line breaks.
Location Prompts & Poetry Forms: Ideas for poems inspired by different trail locations (summit, river, forest, etc.) and recommended forms like haiku, catalog poems, prose poems, and abecedarians.
Appendix – Trail Etiquette & Practice Advice: Leave No Trace principles, poetry safety tips, group hiking advice, tracking your poetry hikes, and reflection questions for building a regular practice.
Final Words: Encouragement and reminders about the lifelong relationship between hiking, poetry, and pay-it-forward creative inspiration.
Features:
Includes spaces to record each hike, write poems, jot observations, and track your evolving poetry trail practice.
This workbook gives you everything you need for integrating poetry into your hiking experience and collecting a unique set of poems that reflect both your inner and outer journeys.
The Poetry Hiking Trail Workbook is a guided journal designed to help you write poetry while hiking. Here’s what’s included in the book:
Introduction: Explains the concept of combining hiking and poetry for mindfulness and creativity, with tips for using the workbook and a packing list.
Trailhead (Section 1): Prompts for starting your journey, including threshold poems, first impression haiku, and intention-setting exercises.
The Ascent (Section 2): Writing exercises focused on effort, body awareness, and poetic rhythm as you climb.
The Midpoint/Rest (Section 3): Prompts for stopping, observing the landscape, mapping sounds, and reflecting on the mountain as metaphor.
The Summit (Section 4): Exercises for documenting achievement, using the view for poetic inspiration, and writing haiku sequences that capture sensations, visuals, and emotions.
The Descent (Section 5): Prompts for exploring the feeling of going downhill, noting changes in yourself, finding details you missed, and writing quickly.
The Return (Section 6): Reflective exercises to capture what the trail gave you, who you were before and after the hike, and crafting a final poem integrating the journey’s highlights.
Post-Hike Craft (Section 7): Guides for revising your trail poems, harvesting best lines and images, uncovering metaphors, and considering poem sequence or series.
Bonus Exercises: Prompts for special trail conditions: rain, snow, heat, and night hiking.
Trail-Writing Techniques: Tips for writing on the move, using voice notes, collecting trail vocabulary, and finding organic line breaks.
Location Prompts & Poetry Forms: Ideas for poems inspired by different trail locations (summit, river, forest, etc.) and recommended forms like haiku, catalog poems, prose poems, and abecedarians.
Appendix – Trail Etiquette & Practice Advice: Leave No Trace principles, poetry safety tips, group hiking advice, tracking your poetry hikes, and reflection questions for building a regular practice.
Final Words: Encouragement and reminders about the lifelong relationship between hiking, poetry, and pay-it-forward creative inspiration.
Features:
Includes spaces to record each hike, write poems, jot observations, and track your evolving poetry trail practice.
This workbook gives you everything you need for integrating poetry into your hiking experience and collecting a unique set of poems that reflect both your inner and outer journeys.
