Changing Hands Bookstore
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Tempe, AZ N/A
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT. Mountain time. $25 per person.
Join Changing Hands Bookstore for a virtual writing workshop with Jennifer Huang, author of Return Flight. The workshop is $25 per person and space is limited; Register here!
In this workshop, we will explore how stories of the self are constructed over time and across poems. How can we use poetry to tell stories of ourselves in a way that makes room for complexity, contradiction, and messiness? We will look at the palinode—a form of poetry in which the poet retracts something said previously—and how rewriting and writing-in-process can make space for these possibilities. What opens when we challenge the authority and “rightness” of our speakers and our poems? This will be a generative workshop, and participants will leave with two drafts of a poem. To make the most out of this workshop, participants are encouraged to bring a poem (or several) they are working on.
Jennifer Huang
Jennifer Huang is the author of Return Flight, which was awarded the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. Huang was born in Maryland to Taiwanese immigrants and has since called many places their home.
Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire—and with the many tendons in between.