Upcoming Kundiman Events:
Autopoiesis: A Poetry Craft Class for Transracial Adoptees with Tiana Nobile & Leah Silvieus
Tuesday, March 8th
6:00 PM–9:00 PM ET
“Growing up without any adoptee representation outside of fairy tales and Little Orphan Annie, it felt important to write a book that demonstrated a complicated understanding of the adoptee experience”
—Tiana Nobile, Catapult: “Three Asian Adoptee Poets Reflect on Craft, Adoption, and Anti-Asian Violence”
“I’ve always been writing about adoption in some form or another—or, if not adoption itself, then the loss and longing that I’ve felt as an adoptee”
— Leah Silvieus, The Adroit Journal: “Dangerous Season: A Conversation with Leah Silvieus”
In this generative poetry craft class exclusively for transracial adoptees, we will explore the power of taking ownership over your own story. Questions around belonging, familial history, and erasure are built into the adoptee experience. With poets such as Sun Yung Shin, Lee Herrick, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, and Jennifer Kwon Dobbs acting as guiding lights, we will consider these questions through craft exercises that focus on found text/erasure, collaboration, questions, and direct address. We will bring all of the pieces together at the end of the class as we write self-portrait poems that will draw from the discoveries we made in our series of exercises.
eligibility:
This craft class is open to transracial adoptees. The non-refundable tuition fee is $50. This class will be held over Zoom. There are scholarship spots available, and the applications are open through Tuesday, February 22nd.
Registration for this class is now closed.
FACULTY:
Tiana Nobile is the author of Cleave (Hub City Press, 2021). She is a Korean American adoptee, Kundiman fellow, and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. A finalist of the National Poetry Series and Kundiman Poetry Prize, her writing has appeared in Poetry Northwest, The New Republic, Guernica, and the Texas Review, among others. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. For more, visit www.tiananobile.co
Leah Silvieus is the author most recently of the poetry collection Arabilis and is the co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit. She is a Kundiman fellow and holds an MFA from the University of Miami. She is currently based in New Haven where she is a Master of Arts in Religion candidate at Yale Divinity School.