Friday, May 30, 7pm–9pm
Taught by Somi Jun
This stand-alone workshop is adapted from March April’s Poetry as Experience course, taught earlier this year.
This particular session is interested in the poetry shaped by silence, fragmentation, and erasure. During this workshop, we will engage with both historical and experimental perspectives on the practice of erasure.
We will ask: How has fragmentation historically been used in poetry? How are contemporary poets using erasure and silence to grapple with history, personal and global? What are the political and aesthetic uses of erasure? How do poets borrow tools from other crafts to wield erasure to its greatest effect?
Reading list: Diana Khoi Nguyen, Fred Moten, Solmaz Sharif, M.NourbeSe Philip
Participants will be given reading packets in advance and will also have the chance to (re)read during class. Each session will end with a writing exercise.
Max: 8 people
Somi Jun was born in Korea and raised in Los Angeles, where they currently reside. They founded March April Studio, which facilitates art, writing, and co-working at sliding scale rates. From Jun’s kitchen table, they co-founded Corners cutoff, a translingual art press which designs, produces, and distributes printed matter in southern California. Jun’s writing has been supported by Tin House and the MFA Programs in Writing at UC Irvine.