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That Forward Trajectory: Poems from the Future
w/Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Sueyeun Juliette Lee will be reading her work for the Edge Reading Series at Casa Libre on January 23 more info...

Thursday, January 24
6-8 p.m.
Cost: $40
To register please email casakeepers@casalibre.org

Workshop Description: The future is a strange projection. It houses our dreams and fears, yet remains stubbornly vague despite our best algorithms and predictive technologies. In this workshop, I invite you to walk with me into that distant screen called TOMORROW, to enter into a forward trajectory and imagine its completion. How will future social structures and technologies shape the way we live, think, breathe, and relate to one another? What shapes might our spirits have to adopt in such a world? How will we love? What will we dream of or long for at the end of time? Aided by lively speculative discussions, somatic exercises, and starlight therapy, learn how entering an imagination of the future can open new potentials in your writing. Expect to receive a packet of short readings and exercises to complete in advance. This is *not* a science fiction workshop, though sci-fi lovers are welcome.

Teacher Bio

Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA. She received her MFA in Creative Writing for Poetry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she also completed a Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies. Currently, Sueyeun lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she is completing a doctorate from Temple University. She studies aesthetic theory and Asian American poetry's connections to the visual arts. In 2006, she launched Corollary Press, a chapbook series devoted to multi-ethnic innovative writing, and has since released twelve titles, including work by Douglas Kearney, Lynn Xu, Bhanu Kapil, Brandon Shimoda, and Jai Arun Ravine. Her own poetry frequently investigates how racial logics are produced and circulated across cultures. Her first book, That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Press) examines these circulations through celebrity figures like Bruce Lee, Kim Jong-Il, Toshiro Mifune, and Margaret Cho. Her second book, Underground National (Factory School), centers on the divided nation of Korea, reworking the various rhetorics that have come to define this place. Her chapbooks include Perfect Villagers (Octopus Books), Mental Commitment Robots (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise (The Black Warrior Review), A Primary Mother (Least Weasel) and the digital chapbooksTrespass Slightly In (Coconut) and What One Wants and What Will Be Prescribed / Without One Single Center Forever (The Drunken Boat). She is also the founding member of the North Asian American Poetry Collective, a group of six self-identified Asian American authors from a variety of social and geographical contexts who produce critical and creative work together. She has given readings and presentations at numerous arts and poetry institutions, including the Asian American Writers Workshop in NYC, The Kelly Writers House, the University of Santa Cruz, and California Institute of the Arts, and just completed a Visiting Professorship teaching for the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a contributing editor for the experimental journal EOAGH and a poetry reviewer for The Constant Critic. You can find her at silentbroadcast.com. 

This reading is supported with generous funding from Poets & Writers.