Upcoming Kundiman Events:
kundiman Summer Session:
documentary hybrid forms
with cathy park hong
Saturday, august 22nd
2:00 PM–5:00 PM ET
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.”
In this class, we will learn 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. The non-refundable tuition fee is $50 and it will be held over Zoom. Scholarships are available: if interested in a scholarship, please apply by August 1st.
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FACULTY:
Cathy Park Hong’s book of creative nonfiction, Minor Feelings, was published in Spring 2020 by One World/Random House (US) and Profile Books (UK). She is also the author of poetry collections Engine Empire, published in 2012 by W.W. Norton, Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Translating Mo'um. Hong is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, A Public Space, Paris Review, McSweeney's, Baffler, Yale Review, The Nation, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and is a professor at Rutgers-Newark University.