It's been a little while since our workshops with John Burgess, Josie Long, Walt Donohue and others, so we're excited to reawaken the literary mind of CAMP with this online workshop exploring ideas of iteration in poetry, and how those ideas relate to hybrid composition, led by award winning poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen .

Diana is the author of two poetry collections, Root Fractures (Scribner, 2024) and Ghost Of (Omnidawn Publishing, 2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. She is also the author of the chaplet Unless (Belladonna*, 2019), which received the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Colorado Book Award. Her video work has recently been exhibited at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art. Nguyen is a Kundiman fellow and member of the Vietnamese artist collective She Who Has No Master(s). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and winner of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, she currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.

Here's Diana's description of the workshop: "Sometimes, poems are like fruiting bodies, casting seeds which sprout, manifesting as additional poems or other creative impulses such as a song, collage, video piece, or prose form. Lately I'm thinking about how poems aren’t single islands in a sea, but an archipelago. During our time together, we will focus on how to further fruit the bodies of our poems, and what iterations and hybrid forms they might inspire. Hybrid forms may often refer to prose poems, lyric essays, and so forth, I'm thinking of hybrid composition more broadly, that is, work which does not conventionally fit into any one genre or tradition, work which incorporates multiple modes (which may include audio, visual and spatial elements), drawing from diverse disciplines and areas of engagement. Our gathering will be centered around poetry, and our explorations will orient toward a poetics of hybrid composition. We'll begin by studying an array of poems and poetics, paying close attention to vital organs of these works, collaborating to uncover new pathways for them while engaging in thoughtful, descriptive-based discussion."



WHERE AND WHEN?

This is an online course, but it involves realtime sessions and contact time with your tutor - it's not a "download these videos and watch them at your leisure" type of thing - it's a real workshop with live lectures, individual tuition, assignments and feedback sessions. We've tried to make this remote session as close as possible to the experience of an onsite workshop at CAMP. The course starts on 26/11/2024 and ends on 17/12/2024. The schedule for sessions is as follows (all times are CET):

• Session 1: 26/11/2024, 19:00 - 21:30 CET
• Session 2: 03/12/2024, 19:00 - 21:30 CET
• Session 3: 10/12/2024, 19:00 - 21:30 CET
• Session 4: 17/12/2024, 19:00 - 21:30 CET

HOW TO BOOK

To book your place on the course, click the button in the green section above. You won't pay anything right now - we'll send you a booking confirmation email with everything you need to know next. Your place is reserved without payment for three days.

You'll find a payment link in the booking confirmation email - follow the link to make a payment (either in full, or the first payment of a 2 month payment plan). In the latter case, a monthly payment plan will be put in place, so your card will be charged 1/2 of the fee today, and 1/2 each month (on the same day) for an additional 1 months. All card payments are handled by Stripe, and are extremely secure. We don't store any card data ourselves - all of this is handled securely off-site by Stripe. If you have a discount or grant code, you will be able to add it when you follow the payment link in your confirmation email.

Once you've made a payment, you'll receive another email containing your receipt, links to resources, contact information and access to our group chat to discuss the workshop with other participants.