Fostering community through the literary arts
Garden Sessions with Samuel Burt
Sat, Jun 21
|Iowa City
Come be part of a community garden building project this summer! Find out how the practice of planting can inspire creative writing.
Time & Location
Jun 21, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Iowa City, 1019 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, USA
About the event
Come be part of a community garden building project this summer! Find out how the practice of planting can inspire creative writing. In 2025, the Writing Garden Project features four free planting and writing sessions.
Samuel Burt is a poet and artist from Grinnell, Iowa. The 2024 recipient of the Gwenn A. Nusbaum Scholarship from the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and a 2022 winner of the AWP's Intro Journals Project, Samuel's poems have been featured in Salt Hill, The Journal, Colorado Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, and many more print and digital journals. He holds a poetry MFA from Bowling Green State University, reads for Fahmidan Journal, and works at the Grinnell College Libraries.