Poetry as art object:
a sensual approach to reading & writing visual poetry
with jade yeung

Saturdays, March 28th–April 18th, 2026
2:00–4:30 pm ET

What is visual poetry? Is there a right way to engage with it? Visual poetry combines graphic/visual and typographical elements to create poems that can simultaneously intrigue, confuse, and move us. They appear like diagrams, collages, documents, or computer glitches. But how do we venture beyond these immediate impressions, or what Douglas Kearney calls “legible noise,” to begin to appreciate visual poetry, even as it resists legibility? What story is the visual poet trying to tell us? 

In this four-week workshop we will spend the first two weeks reading/describing/sensing visual poetry, immersing ourselves in the sensory experience of each poem, and attuning to them as one might experience a sculpture or art installation. In the last two weeks we will play with our own visual poetry / text & image experiments and share them in an informal workshop setting.

eligibility:

This workshop is open to all writers of color. The non-refundable tuition fee is $300. This class will be held over Zoom. There is one scholarship spot available, and the applications are open through Monday, March 9th.

register for this workshop here

scholarships for this workshop are now closed

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

FACULTY:

Jade Yeung is a queer Toishanese writer and artist from Canarsie/Brooklyn, NY. They are the author of ANTI, a chapbook from Black Warrior Review. Jade is a 2025 Fine Arts Work Center Scholar, a 2024 Kundiman Fellow, a 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow and Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence. They have received support from the Academy of American Poets, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers, Tin House, and VONA. They have appeared in Honey Literary, Kissing Dynamite, Indolent Books, and Lammergeier. Jade received their MFA from Rutgers University-Newark where they were a Trustee Fellow.