Writing in the Margins Workshop
Project Row Houses, 2015
“Writing in the Margins” was a reading/writing workshop in three parts exploring texts often relegated to the margins, such as footnotes, lists, diagrams, manifestos, and others, primarily by writers of color. Select texts will be read from various writers to include: Harryette Mullen, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Teju Cole, Georges Perec, Jimmie Durham, Sekou Sundiata, William Pope L., among others. Participants left the workshop with completed work. The workshop framed these modest forms as sites for experimentation and transformation.
The workshop explores questions including:
How can small texts become active spaces for creativity?
How can poetry explore dissent in content and in form?
What does it mean to write text on the margins?
How can diaspora inform form?