Tuesday, December 15, 6:00 pm
Presented By: Catamount Arts
Tuesday, December 15, 6:00 pm
Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Using 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.
Please bring paper and something to write with.
Class fee: $10 (10% off for Catamount Arts members and high school students).
Register via our Class Portal.
Supported in part by a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation.
Ching-In Chen is author of Shiny City, recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) and The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press collective member, Airlie Press editor and Nonfiction Coordinator for Best of the Net. They serve on the Governing Council of Seattle’s Cultural Space Agency, on the board of Seattle City of Literature and as the Pacific Northwest chapter co-lead for Kundiman and on the national Kundiman board. They collaborate on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative writing project exploring breath through meditation and environmental justice. They teach in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell.
Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT
Using 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.
Please bring paper and something to write with.
Class fee: $10 (10% off for Catamount Arts members and high school students).
Register via our Class Portal.
Supported in part by a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation.
Ching-In Chen is author of Shiny City, recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) and The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press collective member, Airlie Press editor and Nonfiction Coordinator for Best of the Net. They serve on the Governing Council of Seattle’s Cultural Space Agency, on the board of Seattle City of Literature and as the Pacific Northwest chapter co-lead for Kundiman and on the national Kundiman board. They collaborate on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative writing project exploring breath through meditation and environmental justice. They teach in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell.