Forms & Features with Wendy Chen

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Prose Poetry as Rebellion,” created and led by Wendy Chen.

In this session, we consider the prose poem and its long relationship to rebellion. We will discuss ways to define prose poetry and examine a range of contemporary prose poems that push against boundaries of form or content. Through this framework of resistance, we will develop our own prose poetry writing practices and definitions.

Wendy Chen is the author of Unearthings (Tavern Books), editor of Figure 1, and associate editor-in-chief of Tupelo Quarterly. She is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Most Promising Young Poet Prize and fellowships from MacDowell, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry from Syracuse University and her PhD in English at the University of Denver. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Algonquin in 2024. Her translations of Song-dynasty woman writer Li Qingzhao are forthcoming from FSG in 2025.

To allow for more poets to participate in workshops with Visiting Teaching Artists, participants will be registered for the July workshop with Wendy Chen or the August workshop with Nathan Xavier Osorio, but not both workshops. This program is for adult participants, aged 18 and older.

Closed captioning is available via Google Meet. We are happy to provide ASL interpretation. Please let us know at least one week in advance, if possible, if you would benefit from an ASL interpreter in attendance. If you would benefit from any other accessibility measures, please contact us by emailing [email protected]. Learn more about Google Meet’s built-in accessibility features here.