critical wonder: process and poetics with kimberly alidio

Saturday, may 9th, 2026
1:00–3:30 pm ET

When we regard the craft of writing as fluid and experiential, the texts we make start to function as traces of the everyday that can teach us how to write further. In the spirit of “critical wonder,” we will discuss craft issues, such as the line break and visual-sonic forms, as matters of practice, philosophy and politics threaded through our own lives as people in the world. Our guides may include Raven Chacon, Jenny Boully, Fred Moten, Fargo Nissim Tbahki, Renee Gladman, Jackie Wang, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. Participants will be asked to bring any object related to their creativity, such as a song they admire or a short excerpt of a work-in-progress, and this object will serve as a prompt for a short writing exercise. The focus of this craft class will be generative writing, rather than critique. Anyone who cares about making things, including a life with language, is invited to join. Poets, prose writers, and interdisciplinary writers are welcome..

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; if you are not able to attend, a recording will be shared with all registered participants the week after class. There are scholarship spots available, and the applications are open through Tuesday, April 21st.

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Note: If you can presently afford to pay for a spot in this craft class, we ask that you please do not apply for a scholarship. This will help us provide scholarship opportunities to folks who cannot otherwise register for the class.

FACULTY:

Kimberly Alidio is an historian, literary writer, and teacher. Her most recent publications are: Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions); Shared Discernments with Rebecca Teich (1080PRESS Station Series No. 1); A Teaching Summer (Spiral Editions); “On Being Porous” in e-flux; and Teeter, winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. She lives on the unceded homelands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck (today the Stockbridge-Munsee Community), otherwise known as New York’s Hudson Valley, and supports collective resistance, collective refusal, and collective flourishing to dismantle settler colonialism everywhere.