A Place We Call Home

In this poetry workshop, we will explore poems from 4 Corners poets laureate Jake Skeets, Laura Tohe, Cristoso Apache & Tommy Archuleta, who will be our distinguished visiting writers at the Four Corners Poetry Festival on Saturday, June 13th at the Durango Public Library. Using these poems as inspiration, we will generate our own poems to celebrate the places we call home through vivid language, sharp imagery, and experimental form. No writing experience is necessary. Ages 13+ are welcome!

Geneva Toland is a writer, songleader, naturalist, and educator living in the juniper-piñon pine foothills of the La Plata mountains, homelands of the Ute, Diné and Puebloan peoples. Her debut poetry collection, Council of Thunder, is the winner of Wayfarer Book’s 2025 Homebound Poetry Prize, and will be available in October 2026. Her work has also appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Camas, Four Corners Voices, Reckoning, and humana obscura, among others. She is a poetry editor at Terrain.org and received her MFA in Poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She feels lucky to spend her time writing poems, teaching creative writing workshops, leading song circles, and playing with kids in the woods. See her other offerings at www.genevatoland.com.