Announcing our Summer 2022 classes! Join Carolina Ebeid in a craft class on family archives, Ruben Quesada in a prose poetry craft class, and Angie Sijun Lou in a hybrid prose workshop!
We’re excited to continue meeting with you throughout the summer months. More info about our July and August classes are below, and you can browse the lineup of present and past classes here!
Writing with the Family Archives
Craft Class:
Wednesday, 7:00 PM–9:30 PM ET
July 20th
Open to all writers of color
VHS tapes, recipes, birth and immunization records, letters, heirlooms, passports, a shoebox of photographs—these are among the tangible artifacts that make up the family archive. Amid the tangible, we recognize the intangible and ephemeral matter, such as oral histories, songs, missing records, objects lost in migration now only filed in memory. How do we open a creative space for these often undervalued inventories? In this hybrid workshop, we will consider this question by engaging the work of multimedia writers such as Mary-Kim Arnold and Diana Khoi Nguyen, and by experimenting with the familial materials that we’ve gathered, how to bring these documents and objects into our writing, and how to write into that empty gaps of what’s absent from the archive.
Language, Space, & Abolition
with Angie Sijun Lou
8-week workshop:
Wednesdays, 6:00–8:30 PM ET
August 24th–October 12th
Open to all writers of color
How can we use language to defamiliarize the familiar? In this course, we will explore the sensory experience of traversing through carceral spaces. The first half of the course will focus on recording cognitive knowledge: light, time, body, movement, sound, touch, scent, sight. The latter half of the course will use these techniques to explore the topology of non-places (banks, shopping malls, deserts, prisons, occupied Indigenous lands), disarticulating them towards an abolitionist geography of the future.
Remake It, Don't Break It
with Ruben Quesada
Craft Class:
Saturday, 12:00–3:00 PM ET
August 6th
Open to all writers of color
In “Remake It, Don’t Break It” we’ll explore imaginative and innovative possibilities in writing poetry without line breaks. Our practice will employ the craft of lineated poetry and traditional narrative, including attention to language, syntax, and sound; rhythmic or imagistic patterning; repetition; precision; compression. The intersection of poetry and prose offers a range of possibilities for style and subject. I encourage a diversity of styles and subject matters, and I encourage you to take risks in your work. We will write together and discuss poetic elements as we practice writing.
All classes will take place on Zoom and the class times listed are in Eastern Time. There are scholarships available for each class and deadlines are listed on the individual course pages.
View our full selection of online classes on our Online Classes Page. We will announce new classes for September and the fall soon!
See you online!