Join us on Sunday, September 12, 2021 from 2:00pm – 3:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Muriel Leung.
Workshop Description:
What ghosts stalk your writing? As writers, we are led to believe that the poem reveals what is hidden, but what if some things remain unseen? The origin story stolen away from us. The multiple layers of complex pain. The silences that ripple through narratives of trauma. In this workshop, we will examine what haunts the text of the poem through gaps and elisions. Through exploration of different forms of erasure, workshop participants will find ways to examine what hides underneath our experiences, and consequently, the ghosts that wander through our poems.
Recommended for participants 16 years and above.
The workshop will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions. An ASL interpreter will be present. Access copies of workshop materials will be made available via Google Docs.
FEATURED READER:
Muriel Leung is the author of Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press), and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) in collaboration with artist Kristine Thompson. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. She is the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal and co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour Podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective, a feminist speakers bureau. Currently, she is an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow at the University of Southern California where she is completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. She is from Queens, NY.