Workshop: Writing the Body in Trouble and Joy with Stephen Kuusisto
Workshop: Writing the Body in Trouble and Joy with Stephen Kuusisto
6 Sessions: Saturday, May 4, 11, 18, June 1, 8, 15
4:00-6:00pm ET
Stephen Kuusisto
12 Students
Online Writing Workshop on Embodiment, Crisis, and Creativity
This six week writing workshop is taught by award winning poet and memoirist Stephen Kuusisto who has written widely about disability and imagination. His memoir “Planet of the Blind” has been translated into 18 languages.
Each week will focus on the circumstances of bodily individuality. In this course we will write about the body in all its remarkable subjectivities, as lyric prose says we’re all universal. We will explore the techniques of putting poetry into prose; strengthening our voices; and using devices from fiction to create writing that is both cinematic and original. Bring your body.
Workshop Highlights:
Instructor and peer feedback
Generative writing exercises
4 full scholarships available. For information, please contact Kate Mabus, kate@theshipmanagency.com
Stephen Kuusisto, who has been blind since birth, is an acclaimed poet who has written extensively about his experience of blindness, most recently in the bestselling Have Dog, Will Travel (Simon & Schuster, 2018) which Temple Grandin praised as “A perceptive and beautifully crafted memoir.” His most recent book of poetry is Letter to Borges (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). Other books include his memoirs Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening (W.W. Norton & Co., 2006) and Planet of the Blind (Dial Press, 1997), which was a New York Times Notable Book, and the poetry collection Only Bread, Only Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2000). He is currently working on a collection of prose poems for Copper Canyon Press entitled Mornings With Borges as well as a collection of political poems about disability. He is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Literature.
