Upcoming Kundiman Events:
Food, Love, and Literature:
Asian American Longings with Margaret Rhee
December 3rd, 2022
SaturDAY, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM ET
Food is evocative, ephemeral and expressive. Food is sensual, flavorful, and a story. Food is familial, political, and powerful. Asian American writers have long utilized food to address pressing issues in literature and in particular the politics and complexities of love. In this workshop, writers will explore food and love in literary arts with an emphasis on Asian American literature and culture, including work by Monique Truong, Li-Young Lee, Kyle Lucia Wu, and Eric Kim. Drawing from a multi-genre platter of literary and visual art sources, workshop participants will explore the intersection of food and Asian American identity and experience through close reading, discussion, and developing their own food writing. In doing so, we will explore foodways and recipes as poetry and prose, and experience when the line of poetry can be consumed and sensual.
The 3 hour workshop will include collective reading and discussion, workshopping one's work generated from the workshop, and prior writing, creative writing exercises with food tasting, and a virtual potluck and guest speakers to open up sensual avenues for our writing and developing ideas. This workshop is geared for writers with long term interests on food and Asian American writing, or those who’d like an introduction to intersections of food, love, and Asian American writing.
eligibility:
This craft class is open to Asian American writers. The non-refundable tuition fee is $50. This workshop will be held over Zoom. There are scholarship spots available. The scholarship deadline is Friday, November 11th.
REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS NOW CLOSED.
FACULTY:
Margaret Rhee is a poet, scholar, and new media artist. Her debut poetry collection Love, Robot was named a 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy Magazine and awarded a 2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. Her new media art project The Kimchi Poetry Machine was selected for the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3. She has taught at the University of Oregon, Harvard University, and currently at SUNY Buffalo (UB), where she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Study. At UB, she co-leads the Palah 파랗 Light Lab, a feminist and queer media lab that fosters community participation through technology.