School of the Asian Avant-Garde with Kiran Bath

Sunday, october 26th
2:00–4:30 pm ET

In this intensive class we will consider what the Asian Avant-Garde movement for experimental poetics is. Who are its key figures and contributors, and what techniques and learnings we can take from this body of poetics and apply to our own writing. We will explore the potential of  experimental poetics at its broadest (anything that breaks from tradition) as well as at its more specific iterations (docupoetics/auto-fiction/auto-theory & the New York School of poets). We will look at works from Bhanu Kapil, Nisha Ramaya, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Julietta Singh, Marwa Helal, Divya Victor and more. This workshop is not interested in being exhaustive or prescriptive about the genre. Rather participants can expect to broaden their understanding of what a poem can do and experiment themselves by considering how to bring archives, abstraction, memories and research into their writing practice.

eligibility:

This craft class is open to all writers of color. The non-refundable tuition fee is $50. This class will be held over Zoom. There are scholarship spots available, and the applications are open through Sunday, October 5th.

Register for the class here

apply for a scholarship here

FACULTY:

Kiran Bath is a writer and lawyer currently based in New York. Her debut collection of poems, Instructions for Banno (2024) was awarded the Nautilus Silver prize in poetry. Kiran has received fellowships and support from Poets House, the Vermont Studio Center and Brooklyn Poets. Kiran is a Kundiman Fellow and a Tin House alumnus. Her writing appears in wildness, The Adroit Journal, The Brooklyn Rail and other journals.