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4/25 1-3:30pm
Peaen is a song of joy, triumph and praise.
This is a generative writing group that meets monthly with various hosts and reads the poems of poets both living and dead who wrote poems of resistance, protest, empowerment and liberation. The group first studies the poem of the month and discusses the writing style, then emulates that style, writing in intervals of 5-10 minutes. There will be time to share work generated during the workshop.
This month the group will study The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi, a powerhouse poet whose work has continually challenged and rallied to change a world that would otherwise erase her. In the PBS News article by Corinne Segal titled Franny Choi Pictures a World Without Police, she says "When people of color are being murdered by the police with impunity, and when queer and trans folks are being murdered and being incarcerated for trying to defend their own lives, and when immigrants are being deported at record high rates, and when there's a presidential candidate who proposes having a national Muslim database, it seems like there are a lot of forces in the world that tell me, and people who are similarly outside the norm of a 'default human,' that we need to apologize for existing.”
Hosted by georgia Van Gunten, the group will write using the literary technique used by Choi in this particular poem: Anaphora or poems that start with the same sentence over and over.
Franny Choi is the author of the poetry collections Soft Science (Alice James, 2019) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014), as well as the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). Choi earned a BA at Brown University and an MFA at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers Program, where she won Hopwood Awards in Poetry and Drama. She has been a recipient of Poetry magazine's Frederick Bock Prize and a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, as well as fellowships from Kundiman, VONA, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Indiana Review, Drunken Boat, The Poetry Review, The Abolitionist, and elsewhere. During her tenure as a Project VOICE teaching artist, she taught students of all ages and levels of experience. She is a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow at Williams College, and a member of the multidisciplinary artists of color collective Dark Noise. From 2017 to 2021, she was a co-host of the Poetry Foundation's podcast, VS.
georgia Van Gunten is founding hedge witch of the writing studio. They/she is a poet, a companion to various packs of animals including dogs and sheep, a fledgling artist and poet, and a traveler. BA in writing and lit, MFA in poetry, big $$$ owed to the government, hikes deep into the woods, screams into the wind, trust falls on trees.
4/25 1-3:30pm
Peaen is a song of joy, triumph and praise.
This is a generative writing group that meets monthly with various hosts and reads the poems of poets both living and dead who wrote poems of resistance, protest, empowerment and liberation. The group first studies the poem of the month and discusses the writing style, then emulates that style, writing in intervals of 5-10 minutes. There will be time to share work generated during the workshop.
This month the group will study The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi, a powerhouse poet whose work has continually challenged and rallied to change a world that would otherwise erase her. In the PBS News article by Corinne Segal titled Franny Choi Pictures a World Without Police, she says "When people of color are being murdered by the police with impunity, and when queer and trans folks are being murdered and being incarcerated for trying to defend their own lives, and when immigrants are being deported at record high rates, and when there's a presidential candidate who proposes having a national Muslim database, it seems like there are a lot of forces in the world that tell me, and people who are similarly outside the norm of a 'default human,' that we need to apologize for existing.”
Hosted by georgia Van Gunten, the group will write using the literary technique used by Choi in this particular poem: Anaphora or poems that start with the same sentence over and over.
Franny Choi is the author of the poetry collections Soft Science (Alice James, 2019) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014), as well as the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). Choi earned a BA at Brown University and an MFA at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers Program, where she won Hopwood Awards in Poetry and Drama. She has been a recipient of Poetry magazine's Frederick Bock Prize and a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, as well as fellowships from Kundiman, VONA, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Indiana Review, Drunken Boat, The Poetry Review, The Abolitionist, and elsewhere. During her tenure as a Project VOICE teaching artist, she taught students of all ages and levels of experience. She is a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow at Williams College, and a member of the multidisciplinary artists of color collective Dark Noise. From 2017 to 2021, she was a co-host of the Poetry Foundation's podcast, VS.
georgia Van Gunten is founding hedge witch of the writing studio. They/she is a poet, a companion to various packs of animals including dogs and sheep, a fledgling artist and poet, and a traveler. BA in writing and lit, MFA in poetry, big $$$ owed to the government, hikes deep into the woods, screams into the wind, trust falls on trees.