Register for workshops here: https://www.lu.ma/flowersandfields

The funds raised through this campaign go toward the development of our fall course and courses in future seasons, which includes instructor labor and scholarships. Thank you for your support in our efforts to create sustainable, alternative modes of learning and community.

🌻 COURSE DETAILS 🌻

This course is open to all, regardless of writing ability or background.
Each of our sessions will be $20-$50, sliding scale.
No one turned away for lack of funds, just come through!
We will be meeting 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17, 12/1, and 12/15.
Courses will be held in-person at ARTogether (1200 Harrison St., Oakland, CA).
Each workshop runs from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

🌻 COURSE DESCRIPTION 🌻

This fall, we are offering “Asian American Poetry as a Radical Possibility,” a series of six generative poetry workshops.

Every session will have a different theme: 10/6 Names; 10/20 Anxiety; 11/3 Refusals; 11/17 Mitski; 12/1 Mothers; 12/15 Freedom. For more information, please see the syllabus.

In each workshop, we will consider work by scholars in the field of Ethnic Studies alongside the work of Asian diasporic poets. We will attend to the ways Asian diasporic poets mobilize poetic form to address the psychic and material conditions of their lives. We will respond to prompts in and out of class, share our work with one another, and discuss how we might begin to heal and better equip ourselves to respond to the pressures of diasporic life in the imperial core.

We will look to writing by poets such as Brynn Saito, Jason Bayani, and K-Ming Chang, alongside scholars such as Rey Chow, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, and erin Khuê Ninh, in order to examine what it truly means to be an Asian American subject living under empire, how this sort of living feels, and how that feeling manifests as language within a literary canon of our own making.

🌻 MEET FLOWERS & FIELDS 🌻

This course is offered by Jess & Kazumi, co-stewards of Flowers & Fields. Through our courses, workshops, craft nights, panels, field trips, and other social gatherings, we bridge the gap between the craft of writing, political education, and the networks of care necessary for the development of mutual power and possibility.

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🌻 RETURNING PARTICIPANTS 🌻

If you have already signed up for a workshop and wish to enroll in another one, you may use this form to do so, but please make sure to sign up a week in advance if possible. Thank you.

FALL 2024: Asian American Poetry As A Radical Possibility