The nonfiction literature of bodies of water and watery bodies explores swimming pools, pipelines, borders, beaches, and beverage bottles. We might rethink water through our memories and histories and through those of Harriet Tubman, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Rachel Carson, Toni Morrison, Wendy Walters, Colson Whitehead, Julie Otsuka, and Robin Wall Kimmerer. Students will discuss water's literally fluid meanings through historic and contemporary poetry, analysis, memoir, science, activism, art, and their own littoral explorations. Through readings and student research into waters of their choice, we will discuss literary forms and approaches to topics such as: marine life, agriculture, storms, drought, fracking, Standing Rock, Flint, shipping, and shores. Coursework includes discussion, creative/researched papers/presentations, teaching facilitations, and journaling. What can we learn, say, and write about the substance that flows through our veins, our taps, and the land we live on?