So I’ve been teaching classes mostly under my own shingle since 2019, but it’s always been my intention to invite other people in. This year, I’m finally doing it! Callum Angus and Sara Larsen, writers and humans that I hugely respect and admire, have some great ~online~ offerings starting in March:
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I was planning to teach my Childhood Reading class in March as well, but I’ve decided to postpone it for later in the year.
In April, you can look forward to How Touching!, taught by Ahana Ganguly, a generative writing workshop about our encounters with nonhuman objects: How do we touch? How are we touched?
In May, Rachelle Rahmé is coming in hot with Object-Oriented Poetry, a class that will focus on objects and writing about objects, with readings from Barbara Guest and Amanda Berenguer, among others, plus brainstorming techniques on how to observe and compellingly write objects in poems.
I am talking to other very exciting potential teachers, too! Maybe you would like to join us? If you have a class idea, let me know. If you have never taught, that’s okay. I believe that anyone can learn to teach, that we are best motivated by our innate curiosity, and that the structures of formal academia are soul-sucking and extractive. I also believe that we are stronger together, so consider yourself invited!
Finally, I am teaching again at School of the Alternative in Black Mountain, NC this May! My class, “First there is a mountain / then there is no mountain / then there is,” is happening during week 1 (May 9-15), but don’t sleep on the other weeks! F’r’instance: Dharushana Muthulingam is teaching “Beyond the Hero’s Journey: torytelling to Defy Empire, Build Care, and Imagine Futures” and you will not regret it. I think scholarship deadlines have been extended and student application deadline is Feb 28th!
Two events are happening this weekend that I encourage you to check out, one is a reading + benefit for Palestinian humanitarian aid, happening at BookEnds in Florence, MA on Saturday.
Another is the first reading of the 2024 Belladonna* Collaborative reading series, happening at on Saturday, February 24th at 2pm. This year’s series is called GIST, and it is hosted by Emily Bark Brown and Ayaz Muratoglu. Each reading will take place in a public space in NYC, but will also be simulcast online. The first is at the Central Library in Brooklyn, and the readers are Jameson Fitzpatrick and Peter Myers. Click here to join virtually at 2 on Saturday!