Reverent Attention as a Radical Tool

Reverent Attention as a Radical Tool

Presented by Zoë Fay-Stindt

In this 90 minute poetry workshop, we will practice reverent attention: wielding one of our most finite resources to notice, tend to, and protect those in our human and other-than-human communities. Who, in your immediate surroundings, do you devote yourself to? How can we remember the sacredness of our attention--and where we place it--to empower us into new relationships of reciprocal care? In this session, we will step outside to notice the world around us (using hand lenses or binoculars when possible), re-commit to caring for one being in particular, and read and write poems that honor the human and other-than-human world through the practice of reverent attention.

Materials: Something to write on and with (no computers or cell phones).

Optional: Hand lens, magnifying lens, binoculars.

This program is brought to our community through Santa Fe Art Institute's Community of Practice 2025 Artist Residency/Fellowship.

Zoë Fay-Stindt is a queer, bicontinental poet with roots in both the French and American south. Their work has been Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets nominated, featured or forthcoming in places such as Southern Humanities, Ninth Letter, EcoTheo, VIDA, Muzzle, RHINO, Terrain, and Poet Lore, and gathered into a chapbook, Bird Body, winner of Cordella Press’ inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize. The recent recipient of an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University, they have also received funding and support from the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship, Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Alexander Von Humbolt prize, Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, and others. Zoë is a student and teacher of belonging and embodied relationship to land who writes towards queer, kincentric futures. They are currently based between Asheville, North Carolina and Montpeyroux, France.

SFAI Residency/Fellowship, Community of Practice 2025

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