Upcoming Kundiman Events:
Improvising the World
with Ching-In Chen
Thursday, March 25th
5:00 PM–8:00 PM ET
“I was always drawn to writing as a way for me to make sense of the world and also because I loved reading and being lost in other worlds, but it often felt like those worlds weren’t always made for a reader like me. So I kept returning to my writing.”
––Ching-In Chen, Foglifter Journal: “Seven Questions for Ching-In Chen”
In this generative workshop on breathing and writing together, we will use speculation as a seed for collaboration. Through individual and collaborative writing and improvisation, we will imagine a new world in response to these questions: What are the words, stories, lines, rituals, and creative strategies we need for these times? How do we practice breathing and care in times of disaster?
eligibility:
This craft class is open to all writers of color. The non-refundable tuition fee is $50. This class will be held over Zoom. There are scholarship spots available, and applications are open through March 11th.
Registration for this class is now closed.
Scholarship Applications are now closed.
FACULTY:
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American hybrid writer, community organizer, and teacher. They are author of The Heart’s Traffic and recombinant (winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) as well as the chapbooks how to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Finalist for the Leslie Scalapino Award). Chen is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets. They have received fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Can Serrat, and Imagining America and are a part of Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation writing communities. A community organizer, they have worked in Asian American communities in San Francisco, Oakland, Riverside, Boston, Milwaukee, and Houston. They are currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell.