Sundress Academy for the Arts Presents “Writing Queer & Trans Geographies” with CD Eskilson

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present “Writing Queer & Trans Geographies” a workshop led by CD Eskilson on Wednesday, April 16th 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)

This generative poetry workshop will look at how the theme of place offers fruitful opportunities to engage with themes of identity and social justice, challenge fraught assumptions about where queer and trans life thrives, as well as conceptualize affirming futures. We’ll consider how to render the settings where we feel most authentically ourselves and craft work that interrogates the idea that setting is meant only for description: rather, it is an inexorable part of who we are. We will examine work by Natalie Diaz, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Evelyn Berry, Danez Smith, and Andrea Abi-Karam.

CD Eskilson is a trans nonbinary poet, editor, and translator. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as a Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Pushcart Prize nominee. Their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is out now from Acre Books.

While there is no fee to participate in this workshop, those who are able and appreciative may make donations directly to CD Eskilson via PayPal.

This event is brought to you in part by a grant provided by the Tennessee Arts Commission. 

The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is a writers residency and arts collective that hosts workshops, retreats, and residencies for writers in all genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, journalism, academic writing, playwriting, and more.