Writing as Fruiting: Gather, Grow, Offer, & Nourish w/ Diana Khoi Nguyen

Saturday May 11th: 11AM—2PM Pacific over Zoom
11AM-2PM Pacific / 2-5PM Eastern / 7-10PM BST / 6-9AM NZST (3/24)
(A recording will be made available to all registrants for a limited period afterwards.)

Fungi, as we know, form mutualistic entanglements with other organisms, working in tandem across terrain. For this May session, our gathering is a lab in which each of us will be cognizant of ourselves as having been hyphae searching for and making connections, forming symbiotic relationships with what we encounter, and growing with and toward what we are drawn to. And now we bear fruit: we will discover, forage, and digest poems and other forms of literary arts, nourishing our poetics praxis by absorbing each piece’s nutrients.

I will start off by sharing my journey and process in the mycelium, then facilitate us to engage in the practices shared. In short, we will encounter, study, feed, fruit, and gather.

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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.

$275 Partner

$225 Supporter (Note: This amount reflects the “real” value of this course.)

$175 Companion

$150 Friend

Scholarships are also 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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A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn 2018) which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and forthcoming collection, Root Fractures (Scribner 2024). Nguyen is a Kundiman fellow, recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and winner of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Currently, she is core faculty in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.