Spring Workshops
Milwaukee + Minneapolis 🌷
Spring fever is …real! 😵💫
March: find me in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for an upcoming workshop, MEANDER & UNRAVEL: THE POEM, UNDONE, Sun. Mar. 22 | 1–4 pm CDT | In person at Woodland Pattern:
Lately I’ve been thinking about poems that have a way of meandering and perhaps do something like, in the spirit of that Björk song, Unravel. In this unravelling, which might involve elements of free association or improvisation, I’ve been wondering about the poetic and creative techniques that fuel such a process. The kinds of poems I have in mind are those whose sequences ravel out of reach, suggesting it is possible to break, bend, or yield while still refusing notions of closure. How does such a free object hang together in the presence of so much chaos? Such durational works submit to some other kind of force and compositional logic to the degree that their language, syntax, or sense of the line and even the page appear undone. But to recall Lyn Hejinian, “Undone is not not done.” How does one write as if it were not possible to exhaust one’s subject or the possibilities of poetic utterance? How does one begin a poem that refuses to end?
I’m also giving a reading with polymathic poet Roberto Harrison Sat. Mar 21, at 7pm CDT — this will also be live-streamed via Crowdcast (!!), but you’ve gotta RSVP.
April: Back in Minneapolis to lead Spring Lines, a series of free poetry workshops open to members of the public at Northeast Library, thanks to a Cultural District Arts Fund Grant that funds pop-up art activities in various neighborhoods across the city.
Since returning from AWP, I’ve had fun posting these gorgeous posters around town, designed by Frank Mondragon and risograph printed by Back of Beyond Press in NE.
For those interested in reading fiction, I’m still running Lost in Translation at Moon Palace Books. Our April read: Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price. If you’re local and looking for some literary company— hi!