Upcoming Kundiman Events:
Listening to Images with Diana Khoi Nguyen
Saturday, March 19th
12:00 PM–3:00 PM ET
The title for this exploratory session is lifted from the title of scholar Tina M. Campt's insightful text on ways of listening closely to photography; it informs how we will attune ourselves to the "lower frequencies" of a photographic image so that we can register "'felt sound[s]'--sound that, like a hum, resonates in and as vibration." In this collaborative space (the course model for a workshop is a space of generating work and sharing it in communal generosity), we will explore the ways in which poets have recently engaged with personal, historical, and archival photographs: Ross Gay, Deborah Paradez, and Anthony Cody, to name a few, while simultaneously embarking on our own listening and entrance into/with images. No prior knowledge in working with text and image is required, as I will offer some tutorials.
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 Monday, February 28th.
Registration for this class is now closed.
FACULTY:
A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn 2018) and recipient of a 2021 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to winning the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Colorado Book Award, she was also a finalist for the National Book Award and L.A. Times Book Prize. In Spring 2022, Nguyen will be the artist-in-residence at Brown University. A Kundiman fellow, she is core faculty in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.