Anamot Press Workshop Series: Patrycja Humienik - Water as Method

What can water teach us about craft? In this generative workshop, participants will explore approaches that different bodies of water offer for considering image and syntax. Read together, participate in generative writing exercises and try out (optional) embodied experiments.⁠

This developing experiment, “Water is Method,” is informed by bodies of water and the work of Natalie Diaz, Terrance Hayes, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and CA Conrad, among others. Open to writers of any genre.

Patrycja Humienik is the author of We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025), finalist for the 2026 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize and selected as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2025. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, The Slowdown Show, and elsewhere. Patrycja is a teacher, editor, and performance artist. She is working on her first novel.