Dropping Into the Body
Brooklyn Poets (via Zoom)
April 13 – May 11 (5 Sundays)
2:00 – 5:00 PM (ET)
In this five-week, generative online workshop for all levels, we’ll explore embodiment practices using prompts and trainings drawn from the Mahasatipatthana Sutta, a discourse from the Buddha on how to train our often scattered, frantic and noisy minds to come home to the majesty of our bodies. Together, we’ll use prompts and activities to ground ourselves in our five senses, thoughts and feelings so that our poetry can become an omnidirectional bridge between our bodies and the universe.
Crippin with Eigner
Center for Performance Research
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
How can we honor and incorporate our unique, beautiful bodies into our poetic/artistic practice? We will listen, read, and practice with the work of Larry Eigner, a 20th Century poet with cerebral palsy. We will practice being present in our bodies to express our intuitive selves in our work.
Punctuating The Body
Poets House
June 10 – July 15 (6 Tuesdays)
6:30 – 8:30pm
When writing poetry, grammar and syntax might seem arbitrary since outside the structure of prose there seems to be “no rules.” This series of beginner-intermediate workshops will serve as a poet’s guide to grammar: the rules and how, when, and why to break them. This generative workshop will encourage a lot of automatic writing, recording the unique impressions of our bodies (mind included) on the page so we can discover how grammar and syntax are naturally emerging in our writing and how to use this as a basis for radical experimentation. In order to encourage and inspire our practice, we will study the work of disabled, Black, queer, and trans artists to observe how they mold syntax and rearrange grammar to authentically express themselves.