On November 6, please join us for Writing the Photograph, a Writer's Studio workshop hosted by Jade Cho.
Photos can offer portals to personal and communal memory; to ancestors, past selves, and places changed or gone. They can also serve as tools of criminalization, surveillance and control. What then is the role and responsibility of the writer working with photos? In this workshop, we will read and discuss poems that incorporate photos, including hybrid and visual works, thinking through the writers’ craft and ethical decisions. We will then engage in generative exercises to write and experiment with our own images. Please bring a photo that moves or haunts you (preferably a digital or print copy that can be altered) to work with.
Jade Cho is a Stegner Fellow in Poetry. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and has appeared in Apogee, BOAAT, The Offing, Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley, where she studied and taught in Poetry for the People, and an MFA from Arizona State University, where she served as a June Jordan Teaching Fellow. A grandchild of immigrants from Hoisan (Toisan/Taishan), she is working on a book tracing memory, grief, and desire through the archive of Chinese Exclusion and the Chinese Confession Program.