A 4-Week Generative Nonfiction Workshop
Wednesdays: May 14 - June 4, 6-8 PM
What are the stories you have inherited across time? What memories surface when you write? How do we write and tell intergenerational stories in ways that honor the living and the dead? When we choose to tell intergenerational stories, we write everyday narratives into the archives of history. In this generative poetry and prose workshop, we dive into the art of intergenerational storytelling. Through writing prompts and body-based exercises, we will write the stories we seek to tell about our grandparents, families, and lineages, blood or chosen. We will read the works of writers who use writing as a vehicle to excavate and preserve memory. Writers we may read include Layli Long Solider, Audre Lorde, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. This workshop is beginner friendly. Writers of poetry and prose, of all writing experiences, are welcome.
$185 Members/$245 Nonmembers
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion (he, him, keoi 佢) is a practitioner of ancestral medicine through writing, teaching, energy healing, and creating ceremony. As a poet, he writes to connect with the unseen and unspoken so we can feel and heal. As an energy healing practitioner, he guides people through transformation. River is the winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. He is the author of remembering (y)our light, a debut chapbook on honoring matriarchs and ancestors across generations.
Thrice-nominated for Best of the Net, River's poetry, essays, and peer-reviewed articles appear in Apogee Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, Bellevue Literary Review, Bellingham Review, The Margins, Mizna, Plentitudes Journal, Split this Rock, The Offing, Asian American Journal of Psychology, and beyond. His work is also anthologized in We the Gathered Heat: AAPI Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word (Haymarket Books, 2024), Transmasculine Poetics (Sundress Publications, 2024), and Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve Press, 2023).
A Lambda Literary fellow and Kundiman fellow, River facilitates creative writing workshops, where participants connect with their own inner and collective power. He has taught at Rutgers University-Newark, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Restorative Justice Initiative, Lambda Literary, Museum of the City of New York, and elsewhere. He has also been awarded residencies and fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts, Bread Loaf, Caldera Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Monson Arts, Tin House, Vermont Studio Center, and beyond. For more, visit: riverdandelion.com.
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