Spells for Safety with ching-in chen

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7th
2:00–4:30 pm ET

Inspired by the anthology Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power, we will create and dream poem-rituals and spells together as freedom maps for ourselves and our communities.

eligibility:

This workshop is open to all writers of color. The non-refundable tuition fee is $300. This class will be held over Zoom. Scholarships are available, and the applications are open through November 1st.

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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 the scholarship opportunity to someone who cannot otherwise register for the class.

FACULTY:

Ching-In Chen is author of Shiny City, recombinant, The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems, to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters. Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press and Airlie Press editor and serve as Best of the Net’s Nonfiction Coordinator. They received fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Imagining America, Jack Straw, EmergeNYC, Intercultural Leadership Institute and Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship as well as Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. They collaborate on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative project exploring breath through meditation and environmental justice.