bio

Katy Hawkins teaches wonder and sanity in Philadelphia. Her classes, retreats, and workshops combine a spirit of play with challenges to drop down into deeper states of being. Moving Poetics represents an attempt to fuse Katy's academic teaching (in comp lit and queer theory) with her spirituality, which might be summarized as a Quakerly approach to wisdom as innate, nature as sacred, and ethics as intuitive. Sometimes her teaching explores poetic language through somatics, but always seeks to open the way for embodied experience as its own form of poetry.