Monsters I Will Be: Experimental Poetics & Politics [Kenji Liu]

How do we, through poetry, take the monstrosities of modern life and politics and compost them into something new? In this workshop you’ll learn the “frankenpo” (Frankenstein poetry) method, which takes existing bodies of text, smashes them, and sews them into new work that speaks back to or transmutes the originals. We’ll also touch on other experimental poetry methods and consider how they might help us write ourselves into a new way of being.