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Writing with the Noise: a workshop with Mimi Tempestt
January 20 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Utilizing meditation, music, and improvisation to enhance your writing practices. A jazz habit. An emcee’s tool. A poetic practice.
This is a writing intensive dedicated to holding the noise of the mind. Through embracing our intellectual freak flags, this workshop allows us to gain access to methods that capture the frenetic whisperings which are natural to our consciousness. We’ll attempt to remove the blockages from our path to paint freely on the page. Talking with all the characters our soul inhabits; a free-fall into Wonderland.
This is the absorption of chaos on canvas. This is an eclipse of spirit. This is an attempt to break reality and exist solely through phantasmagoria. THIS ISN’T REAL. This is a structured mind experiment on how to channel your mess into mode and medium.
We’ll build from contemporary Jazz artist, Kamasi Washington’s The Epic, to explore the ideas of free-range, bigness, alternative use of voice(s), and rhythmic over standings. This is an exclusive workshop. Shy/Polite writers aren’t invited. Those wishing to develop their attitudes on the page, pissing on persona (punks, mavericks and radicals alike) ARE HAPPILY WELCOMED.
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the delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through a radically human lens.
Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and daughter of California. She has an MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her debut collection of poems, the monumental misrememberings, was published by Co-Conspirator Press in 2020. In 2021, she was selected for participation in the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices & writers, and was a Creative Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is the 2023 recipient of the SFF/Nomadic Press Literary Prize in Poetry. Her second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, is currently published with City Lights. Her works can be found in Foglifter, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.