Wild Nature Heart

POETRY COLLECTIONS

Wild Nature Heart’s collection of organic, free-range poetry books. Forage among 10 earthy books available now.
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PROGRAMS

Upcoming Programs Early 2026:
🍄Earth Intimacies: Apprenticing to Life (6 week course starting March 20)
❤️‍🔥Deep Belonging in the Great Turning (6 week course, starting March 21)
💧Write Your Wild River (6 week course starting March 1)
💘Love Against Empire (Feb. 14)
✊🏽Dissent (Feb. 16)
🌍Earth Intimacies Writing Playshop (Feb. 28)
✍🏿Write Against Empire (March 4)
🦋Becoming Beautiful Barbarians

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Deep Belonging In The Great Composting

A 6-week experience for those hearing the call to cultivate our earth-connection, deepen our liberatory journey, and practice belonging to pace, place, purpose, and more as we intentionally meet this collective initiation of intersecting ecological/social crises and opportunities.

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Love Against Empire

“May we love in ways that devastingly disrupt state violence.” ~Gabes Torres What does Love want in this moment? What work does it do? What does it serve? What are Love’s implications for navigating the path ahead? This V-Day we gather these questions in…

Posted on February 10, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Co-Weaving Words Beyond Empire

Something we do in some of the Wild Nature Heart classes is an activity called Co-Weaving Words: collect a handful of resonant words/phrases from each participant then create collective poems from this basket of words, using mostly only these words, like ingredients in a…

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Earth Intimacies: Apprenticing to Life

Often when we hear the word intimacy, we think romance. At the very least we think about humans. But what if intimacy with Earth was not only possible, but necessary for co-creating the world we want to inhabit and bequeath to future generations? For…

Posted on January 7, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning