An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Destiny Love Hemphill!
In this workshop, we will consider procedural poetics as pathway to generate poetry in
moments where deep embodied and/or psychic pain leaves us with little access to language-making. In so doing, we will remove the sometimes-burdensome expectation of inspiration to create and remember the social and political dimensions of language by engaging source material. Please bring 3 items to use as source materials with you for the workshop. This can be a book, an audiobook, a song/lyrics, an article, a podcast, podcast transcript, or anything else that has language with which you can engage.
About the Instructor: Destiny Hemphill is a chronically ill ritual worker and poet, living on the unceded territory of the Eno-Occaneechi band of the Saponi Nation (Durham, NC). A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Callaloo, Tin House, and Kenyon Review's Writers Workshop, she is the author of the poetry collection motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (Action Books, 2023), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Prize. Her work has also been featured in Poetry Magazine, Southern Cultures, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series. She served as an inaugural Poetry Coalition Fellow, a Kenan Visiting Writer in Poetry at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and an inaugural Tin House Reading Fellow.
**This workshop will take place on Zoom.**
