Craft Intensive: Humanimal Poetics - Assemblage-as-Method (Advanced Writing Workshop) Poetry & Prose (Austin)

For October’s Craft Intensive, we’re reading Phoebe Giannisi’s poetry collection, Chimera (tr. Brian Sneeden), alongside Cecilia Vicuña’s poem “Trá” from Deer Book and Chin-ing Chen’s poem “For Peddidle” from the anthology: Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation.

Each of these writers works where the human and the animal meet, transforming field notes, scientific studies, oral records, myth or memory into new creative work.
In this advanced writing workshop, we’ll explore the ties between animals and humans, and practice turning primary and secondary research…

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