KUNDIMAN SUMMER SESSION:
Documentary Hybrid Forms
with Cathy Park Hong

Philip Metres defines documentary poetics as “poetry that is not a museum-object to be observed from afar, but a dynamic medium that informs and is informed by the history of the moment.”

This class will look at the craft and politics of documentary poetry, essay, and other hybrid forms, examining how to research, what it means to document, the politics of witness, and what it means to represent someone’s experience other than our own. In addition, we will look at the craft of hybrid writing: if poetry is how to see and prose is how you build, we will look at forms that use poetry to open up the genre-possibilities of prose. This workshop is open to all writers who are BIPOC and scholarships are available. See the class page for more information on the class and registration!