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EcoPoetics, derived from the Greek words eco (household) and poiesis (to make), will explore writing and poetry that addresses ecology. We will investigate definitions of home that includes: how home is rooted in the larger ecology of the living world and how the making of place involves the making of relationships in the human and more than human worlds. From explorations into geologic history, to the direct listening of voices within nature and the poets who give voice to nature, we will examine how science can inform and inspire art and literature, how memory and intelligence might be found not just in human spheres, but in all of the natural world, and how poets and artists speak to the agency of the larger ecological crises.