Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Kay Ulanday Barrett: Disabled Poetics & Crip Ecologies

Disabled Poetics & Crip Ecologies

This workshop session delves into Disabled poetics and Crip Ecologies in its many hybrid, justice-informed, climate-aware, performance-based, and multi-approach radiances. This poetry of the body-mind has a long lineage and helps us identify, transform, and strategize various tools in rhythm, sound, form, approach, and technique. All abilities are celebrated and all disabilities uplifted. We’ll unpack and generate new writing together using mapping, access awareness, and memory building to explore the possibilities and care of our reading and writing.

Poets possibly considered but not limited to: JJJJJerome Ellis, Saleem Hue Penny, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Suzi Garcia, Walela Nehanda, Leroy Moore, Arianna Monet, Joselia Rebekah Hughes, and more!

3 hours on Sunday | Dec 10 | 12-3pm ET  |  $105 ($90 for Members)

All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions.

About the Educator:

Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, a winner of the 2022 Next Book Residency with Tin House, a James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell, and most recently in 2023, residencies at Baldwin for the Arts and Millay Arts awarded by Lambda Literary. Their second book, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have featured at The United Nations, The Lincoln Center, The Hemispheric Institute, The Whitney, The MoMA, Symphony Space, The Ford Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Manchester PRIDE, Sesame Street, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Colorlines, Literary Hub, The Advocate, Poetry Unbound, Split This Rock, Al Jazeera, NYLON, Vogue, The Rumpus, The Lily, and elsewhere. For more info: kaybarrett.net & @Brownroundboi on social media. Photo by: The Street Sensei for DapperQ

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