“Gee, I’ll bet monsters are interesting.”
—Bugs Bunny

Monsters reflect our personal and cultural fascinations with what’s Other. As such, poets Othered by society find metaphor and meaning in monstrosity. A monster is an identity that can be both victim and victor, something stitched or dissembled, a creature celebrated and detested—often at the same time.

More than anybody, monsters need poetry. In this workshop, poets will study the monster as a cultural entity and think through their own experiences of monstrosity. We will study Othered poets, particularly queer, trans, disabled, and BIPOC poets who dig beneath the surface of identity. Poets we read include sam sax, Kenji C. Liu, Torrin A. Greathouse, Angela Veronica Wong, and other keepers of the monster.

You will end this generative workshop with new poem drafts, prompts to inspire future work, and a community of outsiders to support you through your poetic journey.

What to bring: Notebook, laptop and pen, and your imagination!

About Our Teacher:
@glatchkeykid Sean Glatch is a queer poet and educator in New York City. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Foglifter, Ninth Letter, Strange Horizons, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and elsewhere. Sean currently runs the creative writing school Writers.com and the forthcoming card game Poemancer. Learn more here: seanglatch.com

We’re located at 157B First Street, Jersey City NJ. A keycard is required to get into the building, so we will look for people downstairs until 5:15pm at the latest, so please be on time!
If you know you’re going to be later than 5:15pm, please comment below and I will make arrangements to meet you downstairs.

Supported by public funds from the Jersey City Arts and Culture Trust Fund @jerseycityartscouncil and Project 14C @project14c .

THEME: POETRY WORKSHOP
HOST: JERSEY CITY WRITERS
FEATURES: Sean Glatch
PRICE: FREE
CONTACT: @jcwriters