Mobi Warren, a local educator and master naturalist, leads monthly Haiku Hikes through the inspirational terrain at Government Canyon State Natural Area. As an environmental activist/poet, she has organized poetry readings at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center and at Luminaria 2010. Warren is also an experienced workshop facilitator who loves to weave observations of the natural world into everyday happenings.

Warren will teach the class, Dawn and Dusk: Crepuscular Writing, during Gemini Ink’s Summer Literary Festival. The class will take place July 18^th-20^th at Government Canyon State Natural Area and Gemini Ink. At the state park, class participants will hike at dawn and dusk, create journal entries about their experiences, and then, craft their journal entries into poems at Gemini Ink.

Gemini Ink intern Iris Ayala interviewed Warren about her upcoming class, the relationship between nature and art, her favorite poem about nature, and the current state of the environment.

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