A writing workshop with poet Chen Chen to benefit Community Building Art Works.
Join us on Thursday, October 27th at 7 pm ET, for a special writing workshop with poet, Chen Chen, to benefit Community Building Art Works programs for veterans, service members, military families, and health care workers*. All ticket sales benefit CBAW’s programs. This workshop will be recorded** and a link will be e-mailed to all ticket holders once the recording is available for viewing.
What is the power of a letter? How can we reimagine, reinvigorate the features of letter writing in a poem? In this generative workshop, we’ll read, discuss, and practice epistolary forms—mainly in poetry with some shoutouts to nonfiction and fiction. We’ll each also write an actual letter to send via snail mail. Poet-correspondents such as Aracelis Girmay, Jean Valentine, Matthew Olzmann, and Mary Ruefle will be our guides.
About The Poet
Chen Chen’s second book, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in September 2022. His debut, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He was the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.
*This workshop is free for Veterans, Service Members, and Healthcare Workers.
**This live event will be recorded and a link will be shared to registered ticket holders only (via e-mail) once the recording is available. If you do not wish to be seen in the recording, please make sure to mute your video. Again, the recording will only be made available for registered ticket holders.
CBAW Marketing & Communications Manager
Rob Haney is an artist, writer, and graphic designer with a passion for making slick-looking and fun images that catch the eye and draw viewers in. Rob worked for over 10 years in retail banking and management in their previous life, before returning to school and earning an Associates of Arts with Honors from Rock Valley College in 2012. An early addict to Twitter, Rob enjoys liking and resharing cool stuff and interacting with people who hold similar interests on the internet. They currently are working on their degree in Graphic Design while creating social media content for clients. When not online, Rob writes and reads poetry, creates both physical and digital artwork, and watches British mystery shows.