Poetry Event: Walking and Writing Into the Living World
July 12, 2025
6:00 PM
Kimball Art Center
About
Join poets Rebecca Brenner and Nan Seymour for an evening of poetry, conversation, and community connection.Through shared poems and moderated discussion, Brenner and Seymour will explore how writing can become a practice of walking beyond concepts—into the heart of what is real, alive, and urgently felt.
The evening will open with a presence practice and walking meditation, offering participants an opportunity to arrive fully in their bodies and tune into the land around them. This grounding ritual will invite stillness, spaciousness, and attentive movement, setting the tone for deep listening and an embodied approach to the creative process.
Following the session, Brenner and Seymour will reflect on how their creative work connects them to the living world, their ancestors, and ecological and social justice movements. The program will conclude with a Q&A and space for audience reflections.
Rebecca Brenner is an author, mindfulness meditation teacher, and journalist whose work has appeared in TIME, LA Times, Tin House, and more. She is a journalist at TownLift and serves as president and co-founder of Mindful. Summit County, a nonprofit advancing mindfulness as a tool for community care. Rebecca is also an elected member of Summit Pride’s Leadership Team, where she collaborates with local and state leaders to foster safety and equality for queer communities. Her debut memoir-in-verse, Paper House, explores themes of loss and resilience and will be published by Wayfarer Books in June 2025.
Nan Seymour is a lake-facing poet, vigil keeper, and founder of River Writing, a community-held practice for anyone willing to pick up a pen. Her debut collection, prayers not meant for heaven, was published by Toad Hall Editions in 2021. She led seasonal vigils for Great Salt Lake during the 2022 and 2023 legislative sessions, composing irreplaceable, a collective praise poem of over 400 voices. A PBS documentary features her work as a method of ecological repair. Nan continues to advocate for Rights of Nature, giving voice to the lake’s inherent right to live, flourish, and evolve in a natural way.
