1. Setting the stage for wilderness writing

• Writing on the Precipice by James Bradley (2017), Sydney Review of Books 

• More To Be Shaped By: Searching for Black Nature Writing by Erin Sharkey (2023), Literary Hub

• The Woman Who Owned the Sea by Nicola Sebastian (2020), Orion

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1.2 Total Eclipse

• Total Eclipse, Annie Dillard, The Atlantic (2017) 

• The Sun, the Shadow, and the Unselved Self: Helen Macdonald on Eclipses as an Antidote to Ideologies of Otherness and a Portal to Human Connection, Maria Popova, The Marginalian

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2. Language of the wild

• Learning the Grammar of Animacy by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013), excerpted from Braiding Sweetgrass, republished in The Moon magazine

• How Language Can Be Used to Destroy and Dominate, and How It Can Be Used to Remember and Reclaim by Jake Skeets (2022), Literary Hub

• Rewilding our language of landscape by Robert Macfarlane (2015), The Guardian 

• How our fear of “wilding” colored the Central Park Five Case by Brentin Mock (2014), Grist 

• Excerpt from The Art of Description, pp. 108-109 by Mark Doty (2010)

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3. The urban wild 

• The Monkey Garden by Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street, 1984)

• Spark Bird by Emily Raboteau (2021), Orion

• Puddles by Sabrina Imbler (2021), Sierra

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4. A sense of place in the wild

• Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination by Leslie Marmon Silko (1986)

• Yellowstone: The Erotics of Place from An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field by Terry Tempest Williams (1995)

• Excerpt from The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram (1997)

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5. The more-than-human world

• Excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, pp. 192-203 (1974)

• Raven by Craig Childs (The Moon, 2013)

• The 17th Day by Christina Rivera Cogswell (2021), Terrain

• Praise Song for the Unloved Animals by Margaret Renkl (2019), The New York Times​

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6. How we know the wild

• Excerpt from Trace by Lauret Savoy, pp. 107-114 (2015)

• The Invitation by Barry Lopez (2015), Granta Magazine

• Forever Gone by J. Drew Lanham (2018), Orion​

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8. Writing the poems of our lives

• Dead Stars by Ada Limón

• Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market by Pablo Neruda, translated by Robin Robertson

• To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian by Ross Gay

• Summer Haibun by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

• Angels of Bread by Martín Espada

• In the Garden by Teddy Macker (This World, 2015)

• Firefly by Leslie Harrison (Displacement, 2009)

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9. The promise of wild writing

• Dwellings by Linda Hogan (American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, McKibben, B., ed., 2008)

• Finding My Climate-Conscious Tribe: Black Nature Lovers and Writers by Kim-Marie Walker (2019), LitHub

• Why we need nature writing by Robert Macfarlane (New Statesman, 2015)

• The Greatest Nature Essay Ever by Brian Doyle (Orion, 2008)​