To be on the margins of gender, race, and/or sexuality can often feel like there is no roadmap to follow. When we are forced to find our own way, what do we do with the expectations we’ve inherited to conform, silence, and erase? How could naming these inheritances allow for choice instead of repetition, agency instead of compromised belonging?

We will look to LGBTQ+ Asian American poets who have mapped their own way forward and created a sense of belonging wide enough to hold all of who we are. We will look deeply into our family history through the gathering of stories and research to name both our genetic and metaphorical DNA. We will write our way towards an interruption of the erasure that is its own kind of violence, and in its wake make space for us to dream boldly and expansively as if there is no margin to hold us.

In this 8-week course, we will look at poems that both name our inheritances and articulate a different way forward of one’s choosing. This workshop is open to all writers of color and will meet on Thursdays from 6:30 PM–9:00 PM ET from October 7th–December 2nd. There’s limited space to enroll; see the class page for more information!

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