For the month of August, we're offering virtual Summer Sessions for writers across all genres. Each class takes place on one Saturday for 2–3 hours. All classes are open to BIPOC writers and scholarships are available. Registration is open now!
On August 1st from 2:00–5:00 PM ET, Aimee Nezhukumatathil will be teaching a hybrid generative class called "The Edge of the Sea is a Strange & Beautiful Place: Hybrid Poetry & Prose Experiments." The class will interrogate and investigate the "strange and beautiful place" of genre-blurring work. Registration for this class closes on 7/31 at 6 PM EST and scholarship applications are closed.
Jessica Hagedorn, alongside Sarah Gambito and Joseph O. Legaspi, will teach "Tough Love," a generative class for writers in all genres. On August 8th from 2:00–4:00 PM ET, the class will discuss writing and making art in a time of pandemic anxiety and massive civil unrest. This class is now full and scholarship applications are closed.
On August 15th from 2:00–5:00 PM ET, Kimiko Hahn will teach a class on zuihitsu, a Japanese hybrid poetic form that uses fragments, juxtapositions, and contradictions to "follow the brush." Registration for this class will close on 8/14 at 12 PM EST and scholarship applications close on 8/1.
Cathy Park Hong will teach “Documentary Hybrid Forms,” a class that will look at the craft & politics of documentary poetry, essays, and other hybrid forms. On August 22nd from 2:00–5:00 PM ET, we’ll examine how to research, what it means to document, and more. Registration for this class will close on 8/21 at 12 PM EST and scholarship applications close on 8/1.
We hope to offer more virtual programming in the future. Stay in touch!