Bless This Mess
Poetry
5 Wednesdays 6:30–9:30pm (ET)
10/2–10/30
Zoom
Last day to register: 9/27
Poetry
5 Wednesdays 6:30–9:30pm (ET)
10/2–10/30
Zoom
Last day to register: 9/27
Poetry
5 Wednesdays 6:30–9:30pm (ET)
10/2–10/30
Zoom
Last day to register: 9/27
If we choose each word, each scene, each memory and detail that we write, what do we choose to leave out? What are we leaving behind? In Bless This Mess, we will take an anti-good approach to writing so that we can explore all the things we carry that live outside what a good poem should be and should be about. We will explore the behind-the-scenes, the deep cuts, the secret diaries, the 20 tracks we left out of our original album because our stupid manager didn’t think they were good enough until we released (Our Version). By approaching our own work without judgement, we will find a secret garden of experiences and memories that are uniquely us.
About the Instructor:
Chiwan Choi is the author of five books, The Flood, the Daugher Trilogy—Abductions, The Yellow House, my name is wolf—and Sky Songs. He wrote, presented, and destroyed the novel Ghostmaker throughout the course of 2015. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, ONTHEBUS, Esquire.com, and The Nervous Breakdown. Chiwan is a partner at Writ Large Projects and Editor at Cultural Daily. Chiwan was born in Seoul, Korea, spent his early childhood in Asunción, Paraguay, and now splits his time between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.