PUBLISHED January 2nd, 2016 04:20 am | UPDATED June 17th, 2020 06:36 pm
Kick off the year by exploring your inner bad b!tch! In this unique workshop, Sally Wen Mao takes you on a journey to discover what it means to be a bad b!tch in the context of your creative and poetic practices – whether it is writing outside the margins or cracking open a silence that needs to speak. Utilising techniques of poets, singers, rappers, and other gatekeepers of pop culture, respond to exercises designed to excavate your own bad b!tch poetics, and determine what that may mean personally and aesthetically for each of you.
Utilising techniques of poets, singers, rappers, and other gatekeepers of pop culture, respond to exercises designed to excavate your own bad b!tch poetics, and determine what that may mean personally and aesthetically for each of you.
Participants will work on drafting forms, from manifesto to bop to ekphrasis, to generate poems, and build a dossier that reflects the poet’s definition of bad bitch poetics. Examine poetry from poets such as Bhanu Kapil, Chelsey Minnis, June Jordan, Marilyn Chin, and Sonia Sanchezand. Pop music performers such as Beyonce, M.I.A, Missy Elliott, Nicki Minaj and Rihanna may also be covered.
World Lit: Bad B!tch Poetics by Sally Wen Mao is happening on Saturday, 9 January 2016, 10 am at The Arts House. The workshop is priced at $50 and $35 (concession).