Workshop: Poetry Intensive
A New Woman Warrior: Poetry Intensive with Joan Kwon Glass
Power, Grief & Identity in a Post-Roe v. Wade World: **Please note all times are listed in EST**
In her essential feminist book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston expertly incorporates persona, Chinese folklore imagery & Chinese American experiences to build new notions of a “woman warrior.” As we face life and society as women after the reversal of Roe v. Wade, how do we write our own journeys of empowerment and loss? In this generative workshop, we will study poems written by other women about our bodies and identities, motherhood and womanhood. Using prompts inspired by The Woman Warrior and readings of work by Anne Sexton, Dorothy Chan, Lucille Clifton, Allison Blevins, Warsan Shire, Sylvia Plath & Emily Jungmin Yoon, we will write ourselves into the future and into ourselves.
Joan Kwon Glass is the Korean American author of NIGHT SWIM (2022), winner of the Diode Editions Book Contest. She serves as Editor in Chief for Harbor Review, a Brooklyn Poets Mentor, & poet laureate for Milford, CT. Joan’s work has won or been finalist for several prizes including the Pushcart Prize, Sundress Anthology Best of the Net, the Subnivean Award & the Lumiere Review Award. Joan’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, Asian American Writer’s Workshop (The Margins), RHINO, Rattle, Dialogist & elsewhere. Please see her website atwww.joankwonglass.com for more information.