Past Programs | Directions to Casa Libre

Ancestral Landscapes: Writing Physical Memory
a writing workshop w/ Khadijah Queen

Sunday, April 26, 2015
2-4 p.m.
Cost:
$25 workshop only
$40 workshop with critique of up to 3 pages produced in workshop, returned within 3 weeks of receipt

To register:

sliding scale

Workshop Only $25.00 USD Workshop & Critique $40.00 USD

Description
Ancestry and land: two sources of both pride and contention across the globe and across human history. How do they intertwine in our thoughts, our bodies, our conscious and subconscious ways of living and being in the world? How does lost/stolen ancestral knowledge or homeland(s) take up residence in the writer's imagination? This workshop will explore through writing prompts and freewrites, as well as close examinations of a diverse cross-section of sample works, how the past and present intersect with place, body and memory.

Teacher Bio

Photo credit: J. Michael Martinez

Khadijah Queen is the author of Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic Books 2008), Black Peculiar (Noemi Press 2011), and Fearful Beloved, due out from Argos Books in fall 2015. Her chapbooks include I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (Sibling Rivalry 2013) and Exercises in Painting (Bloof Books 2016). Individual poems and prose appear or are forthcoming in Fence, jubilat, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Memoir, Tupelo Quarterly and widely elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers for her verse play Non-Sequitur, with full production to be staged by NYC theater company The Relationship in late 2015. Visit her website: khadijahqueen.com.