[New York, NY]

The Poetry Project: Straight Lines, Knots, Quarter Turns — Repeat: Movement as a Mode of Thought — Free 10-Session Workshop with Rebekah Smith and Asiya Wadud
February 4, 2020, 7:00 pm
at University Settlement at Houston Street Center

This is a 10-week series at the Poetry Project facilitated by Rebekah Smith and Asiya Wadud. Sign ups close Jan 24. This workshop seeks to explore ways in which movement creates meaning, develops feeling, forms thought. This is a collaborative and generative workshop, in which participants are encouraged to bring their reading, viewing, and movement ideas to the group for discussion, and in which new work drawing on themes discussed will be given time and space for considered development.

Rebekah Smith, translator, writer, scholar, bookmaker, and editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.

Asiya Wadud is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird (Nightboat Books, 2018) day pulls down the sky… a filament in gold leaf, written collaboratively with Okwui Okpokwasili (Belladonna/ Danspace, 2019), Syncope (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019) and the forthcoming No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. A member of the Belladonna Collaborative, her work has been supported by the Foundation Jan Michalski, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Danspace Project, Dickinson House, Mount Tremper Arts, and the New York Public Library, among others. Asiya is a 2019–2020 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist-in-Residence and also currently a writer-in-residence at Danspace Project. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

More information here.