Self Writing

understanding the world through the beauty of poetic verses and reverses

Abstract

"Escrevivência" is a term coined by the writer Conceição Evaristo to describe the experience of life and writing her resistance and resilience in the face of adversities. This term was employed in this work to showcase the self-writing process. In this context, the aim of this article was to demonstrate the importance of integrating literature, art, and their relationship with contemporary geography, drawing from the author's experiences and its applicability in school geography education. Therefore, the methodology adopted was autobiography, developed through experiences with poetry and with the intention of understanding the poetic genre. Consequently, the workshop “Literature through Geography: Poetry Atelier” was organized at the XXII Geography Week at UFMT - Contemporary Geography in the Face of Local Challenges and Global Perspectives. This included the use of manual techniques such as poetry embroidery and the presentation of dolls representing poets from the metropolitan area of the Cuiabá River Valley and its surroundings in the state of Mato Grosso. As a result, there was greater participant engagement in creating their own poems, as well as a recognition of the need to address geographic narratives, art, and poetry as ways to stimulate reading and writing habits among students