Video recording of the sixth instalment in Walking America for a conversation about dogs and the humans who walk with them – and write about them. Does walking with a dog enhance the experience of walking? If so, in what way? For poet Susan M. Schultz and walking artist and writer Ernesto Pujol, walking with

Video recording of a Walking America event. There are two basic plots in literature, the late John Gardner once suggested – somebody goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. In two new novels, authors Sharon White and Janice Deal subvert that formula; the recently arrived stranger ends up journeying – on foot – in

Walking America Turtle Island* welcomes two poets, Cole Swensen and Lisa Robertson, who embrace walking as fundamental to their creative practices, and often as subject matter too. Cole Swensen’s On Walking On (Nightboat Books, 2017) interweaves short poetic chronicles of particular walks with poetic commentary on other walking writers’ work, from Chaucer to Lisa Robertson. Both Robertson’s essay collection, Occasional Work and Seven

The loss of walking as an individual and a community act has the potential to destroy our deepest spiritual connections, our democratic society, our neighborhoods, and our freedom, says author Antonia Malchik, introducing her book A Walking Life: Reclaiming our Health and Freedom, One Step at a Time. For author and activist, Jonathon Stalls, walking is a radical necessity, a

Ann de Forest hosts Walking America – writers in conversation. Practitioners and teachers of writings on walking, the guests include, Christine Hume, co-editor of Traversals: A Folio on Walking for The Hopkins Review, and two contributing writers, Nabil Kashyap and Will Zhang.

We are delighted to welcome authors Neil King Jr. and Tom Zoellner, to discuss their epic walks through America’s divided political landscapes in search of common ground.