Upcoming Kundiman Events:
Kundiman Summer Session
the edge of the sea is a strange & Beautiful Place:
Hybrid poetry & Prose experiments
with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Saturday, august 1st
2:00 PM–5:00 PM ET
“I have lots of little morsels of advice: read often and a lot. Floss. Invest in a good pair of shoes and write letters more often. Listen to the paper take the ink when you sign your name.”
–– Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Writer’s Digest: Exclusive Interview with Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Building upon Rachel Carson’s famous maritime observation, we will investigate and interrogate the “strange and beautiful place” of genre-blurring work—work that melds elements of creative nonfiction and poetry. The primary focus of this hybrid class will be generative. We’ll have plenty of time for in-class craft analysis, discussion, and writing prompts galore that will send you home with several solid drafts of new work. Ideal for writers at any level of experience looking for a vibrant shake-up to their writing practices long after the class is over.
This workshop is open to all writers who are BIPOC. The non-refundable tuition fee is $50. This workshop will be held over Zoom. Scholarships are available.
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FACULTY:
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of a collection of illustrated nature essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, forthcoming with Milkweed in September. She also wrote four books of poetry, most recently, Oceanic, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and with Ross Gay, co-authored the chapbook, Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens. Her writing appears twice in Best American Poetry, POETRY, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, and Tin House. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program and was recently named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry.