1. Setting the stage for wild 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

• The Fault of Time by Erica Berry (2025), Emergence Magazine​

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2. (Re)languaging 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 

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3. The urban wild 

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

• 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)

• The Forest of Orchids by Heather Swan (2021), Emergence Magazine

• Excerpt from The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram, pp. 172-177 (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 (2013), excerpted from Animal Dialogues, republished in The Moon magazine

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

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6. What we bring to the wild

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

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

• Dwellings by Linda Hogan​ (1995)

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8. Writing the poems of our lives

• Dead Stars by Ada Limón (2018)

• Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market by Pablo Neruda (1954), translated by Robin Robertson (2007)

• To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian by Ross Gay (2013)

• Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martín Espada (1996)

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

• Above Ground by Clint Smith (2023)

• Summer Haibun by Aimee Nezhukumutathil (2017)

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9. The promise of wild writing

• The Kingdom of God by Teddy Macker (2012), excerpted from Wonder and Other Survival Skills

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

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

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