This Divided Country: Reckoning With the Unresolved

with Joan Kwon Glass

Three Tuesdays in July over Zoom: July 9th, 16th, 23rd 4:00PM-6:00PM Pacific
(A recording of each meeting will be made available to all registrants for a limited period afterwards.)

What remains unresolved in your life, identity & in your relationship with others/the world?

Using anchor poems that incorporate conflicts (internal & external, personal & political, current & historical) we will write about what troubles and unsettles us, developing our own unique voices along the way. In this generative workshop, we will explore the ways in which poetry can provide a forum for working out ancient & ever-present conflicts, in our ancestries, relationships & our world. This workshop will include informal, verbal feedback during class and students will receive written feedback on one poem within two weeks following the end of the workshop. Joan will guide writers through reckonings with complexity & binaries.

Readings will include Anne Sexton, Hanif Abdurraqib, Eugenia Leigh, Suji Kwok Kim, Noor Hindi, C.T. Salazar, Franny Choi, K. Iver & many others.

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Pricing:

The following payment model is inspired by and borrowed from the payment model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class, We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks.

This workshop offers a sliding scale based on your relative financial standing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your financial wealth (retirement/savings/investments); your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and the world; are you expecting an inheritance); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$225 Partner

$175 Supporter (Note: This amount reflects the “real” value of this course.)

$125 Companion

Scholarships are also still available for anyone needing further financial assistance. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info, or if you are feeling challenged in any way by the financial requirements of participation.

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Joan Kwon Glass is the Korean diasporic author of NIGHT SWIM, winner of the Diode Book Prize (Diode Editions, 2022) & two chapbooks. She serves as editor-in-chief for Harbor Review & as a teacher for several writing centers including Brooklyn Poets, Corporeal & Hudson Valley Writers Center. Joan’s poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, Rattle, Asian American Writer’s Workshop (The Margins), Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Cherry Tree, Juniper, Salamander & elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Tupelo Press Helena Whitehill Book Award & the University of Akron Poetry Prize & her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Sundress Best of the Net.