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 students 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.

This is a one-day craft class on Sunday, October 26th from 2:00 PM–4:30 PM ET. This workshop is open to all writers of color.

Check out the class page for more information. To see all of our upcoming classes, visit kundiman.org/online-classes.