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March 15, 2020
Lost in the Letters: Virtual Workshop – Plant Perspectives / June 20
Plant Perspectives: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma
A Workshop in Seeing, Writing, Breathing, and Sensing
June 20 1-3PM EDT
What can we learn about healing and remembering from plants and trees? How might our vision of the future change when we can learn to receive more in the present? How do different bodies and worlds articulate each other, or, how do we learn to be affected? And, how does writing open up space while processing trauma or grief? Through this generative and healing-focused workshop, we will use writing prompts, guided meditations, intuition exercises, mapping, and communing with plant beings to explore the articulation of experience and trauma.
$10 with scholarships available.
Register & More information at LostintheLetters
March 14, 2020
March 12, 2020
Corporeal Writing ONLINE Workshop: Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma / July 12-August 8
Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma
4-Week Online Workshop starting July 12th, 2020
Workshop Leader: Janice Lee
When: July 12 – August 8 (4 weeks)
Where: Online
Cost: $350
Limited sliding scale registrations ($150-$300) for BIPOC available. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info.
More details and to register – see Corporeal Writing page
“What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” –William James
“How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things.” –Eduardo Kohn
On han: “A feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one’s guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong—all these combined.” –Suh Nam-dong
How are the frames of reference and relationships between and of living beings activated? That is, how do different bodies and worlds articulate each other, or, how do we learn to be affected? How do we reconcile personal experience with historical fact? How do we reconcile history with memory? How do we reconcile truths with other truths? How does writing open up space while processing trauma or grief?
This four-week online workshop will begin with the unique emotional identity and Korean concept of han and its relationship to concepts of inherited trauma, looking closely at the relationship of cultural history & identity and aesthetics & narrative and exploring how the presence of unresolved corporeal history and the impossibility of articulation or expression leads to new encounters in language and narrative.
Through this generative and healing-focused workshop, we will use writing prompts, guided meditations, intuition exercises, personal medicine work, shamanic practices, divination, mapping, unbinding wounds & trauma, communing with plant and animal beings, and ceremony to explore the articulation of experience and trauma (lived and inherited). We will explore texts from all genres and work directly on developing a personal healing and writing practice while exploring lived/embodied experience, the body as both a compromised site and as a site for resistance, and connections to thinking about healing from other lineages, including plant & animal medicine, Buddhism, and different lineages of shamanism.
March 11, 2020
Coffee Talk / April 30
Featuring Anne Falkowski, Anne Gudger, Caro, Fischbach, Janice Lee, Jen Violi
Hosted by Coffee and Grief
February 6, 2020
Reed College Visiting Writers Series / February 27
Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 6:30pm
Eliot Chapel, Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202
February 5, 2020
Submission Reading Series: BIPOC Edition @ APANO / Feb 22
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon – APANO
8188 SE Division St., Portland, Oregon 97266
Thanks to a generous grant by Regional Arts & Culture Council, Submission Reading Series is able to present “Submission: BIPOC Edition.” This reading features our two guest editors of color, Janice Lee (fiction) and Skyler Reed (poetry), as well as the winners of our BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color-only) open reading period, Juan Reyes (fiction) and Zaji Cox (poetry).
This reading is free and open to the public. Light snacks and bubbly water will be served.
Doors – 5:00pm
Reading – 5:30pm sharp
Chat – 7ish-8pm
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Zaji Cox has been creating stories since she started reading at age three, discovering her passion for writing when she wrote her first short story at nine years old. She began seriously considering it as she went on to write and self-publish a fantasy/adventure novel by the time she was thirteen, later writing a collection of short stories for her high school senior project in 2012 that she self-published in a compilation book in 2016. She holds a BA in English, and her prose and poetry have been published in Pathos Literary Magazine, The Sunflower Collective, Entropy Magazine, and The Portland Metrozine. Her current work includes a children’s book and a memoir.
Janice Lee is a Korean-American writer, editor, and shamanic healer. She is the author of 7 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, most recently The Sky Isn’t Blue (2016), Imagine a Death (The OS, forthcoming 2021), and Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, forthcoming 2022). She writes about interspecies communication, plants & personhood, the filmic long take, the apocalypse, inherited trauma, the concept of han in Korean culture, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder/Executive Editor of Entropy, Co-Founder of The Accomplices, and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University.
Skyler Reed is an artist, writer, and musician living in Portland, OR. The founder of Moved By Words (http://www.movedbywords.org) a project dedicated to connecting new writers with writing workshops and community engagement, Skyler is the host of NW Native Writers Circle, former Oregon Folklife Slam Champion, has read at Literary Arts in Portland and at Hugo House in Seattle, been featured at the Invisible Spectrum storytelling series, appeared in Portlandia, and is published in Voicemail Poems, R.I.S.E: Survivance: Indigenous Poesis, The LBCC Journal Creative Highway, and the Poetics Corvallis anthology This Love Is Legendary. Skyler is the author of two chapbooks, And All Ampersands (2016) and Sex & Wikipedia (2017).
Juan Carlos Reyes has published the novella A Summer’s Lynching (Quarterly West) and the fiction chapbook Elements of a Bystander (Arcadia Press). His stories, poems and essays have appeared in Waccamaw Journal, Florida Review, and Hawai’i Review, among others. He was the recipient of a Washington State Artist Trust Fiction Storyteller Grant in 2018, and he is currently an Assistant Professor of creative writing at Seattle University. He also serves as the chief editor of Big Fiction magazine, and you can find him online at www.jcreyes.net
September 18, 2019
Corporeal Writing Workshop: Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma / February 15
Workshop Leader: Janice Lee
When: Saturday February 15th, 2020 10AM-4PM (w/ 45min lunch break)
Where: The Corporeal Center; 510 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97210
Cost: $250 (sliding scale available for QTBIPOC students—email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com)
More details and to register – see Corporeal Writing page
“What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” –William James
“How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things.” –Eduardo Kohn
How are the frames of reference and relationships between and of living beings activated? That is, how do different bodies and worlds articulate each other, or, how do we learn to be affected? How do we reconcile personal experience with historical fact? How do we reconcile history with memory? How do we reconcile truths with other truths? How does writing open up space while processing trauma or grief?
How does writing open up space for processing trauma or grief? We will explore the articulation of experience and trauma (lived and inherited), looking at how personal history and identity relate to aesthetics and narrative. We’ll investigate personhood and interspecies communication through exercises in seeing, writing, breathing, and sensing. We’ll study how history and accuracy intersect in creative work, how the limits and failures of language allow us to reach beyond traditional narrative structures, and how memories of trauma are constructed, reconstructed, and might be disruptive to identity and narrative. The workshop will include writing prompts, guided meditations, intuition exercises, shamanic practices, divination, mapping, unbinding wounds & trauma, communing with plant and animal beings, ceremony, and open discussion.
Please bring a rock or stone with you.
September 17, 2019
Winter Poetry Festival (PNCA) / January 12
Winter Poetry Festival centers poetry in a free
festival of performances, interactive stations, screenings, poets’
market, and workshops
About this Event
2020 Winter Poetry Festival – https://www.pdxpoetryfest.com
*Free to the public*
January 11-12, 2020 * 12-8 pm
Pacific Northwest College of Art, 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209
Winter
Poetry Festival centers poetry across forms and mediums in a free
festival of performances, interactive stations, screenings, poets’
market, and workshops. Our mission is to be:
A gathering of poetry enthusiasts and poets as artists in community with each otherA place to further craft, to be mutually inspired while connecting, and to celebrate all forms and iterations of the art we love
*Presented by PDX Poetry Fest co-founders Cosper Onstott and Pamela K. Santos, with support from Regional Arts & Culture Council and Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing, and community partner Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC)*
I’ll be teaching a free workshop Sunday afternoon: Plant Perspectives: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma.
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September 6, 2019
WTAW PDX @ Corkscrew Wine Bar / November 17
More details TBA
September 5, 2019
Survival of the Feminist: mother wound @ Corporeal Writing / October 7
7PM Monday, Oct 7
Corporeal Writing
510 SE 3rd Ave (at Washington) in downtown Portland
Theme: “mother wound”
More details TBA
