The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present “Writing More Than One Place,” a workshop led by Asa Drake on Wednesday, October 16th, 2024, from 6:00 – 7:30 PM EST. This event will be held over Zoom. Participants can access the event at tiny.utk.edu/sundress (password: safta).
Exploring the ecology and history of diaspora, this class turns to the work of Catherine Chen, Leslie Sainz, and Xiao Yue Shan to examine our personal connections to place in the context of colonialism.
What happens when we celebrate the “exotic” cultivar, but not the body who imagined it? How do we interpret displaced species in the context of climate change? Through generative exercises, we’ll study language formed in the ecotone between home and homeland, offices and public spaces.
Asa Drake is a Filipina American poet and author of the chapbook One Way to Listen (Gold Line Press, 2023). She has received fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, the Florida Book Awards, Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her poems have been published by The Slowdown Podcast, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review Daily and The Georgia Review.
While there is no fee to participate in this workshop, those who are able and appreciative may make donations directly to Asa Drake via Venmo: @Asa-Drake or CashApp: $AsaDrake/ asaldrake@gmail.com
This event is brought to you in part by grants provided by the Tennessee Arts Commission.
