About this Event
Join us for an intimate reading with poet and Fellow Karma Mayet Johnson and participants from the generative NYC Regional Workshop, Methodic Madness: Poems of (Re) Memory, as they read new and original work. Participants will share work that delves into moments described as unspeakable, whether for their subtlety, joy, or for their grief, to address the challenges of (re) membering who we are through language.
Access Notes:
- Virtual live stream available
- ASL interpreter provided (in person and live stream)
- Closed captioning available for live stream
About
Karma Mayet Johnson ('98) is a transdisciplinary practitioner working in literature, music, and theater, with directors from Robert Wilson to Bill T. Jones, and with musicians including Lizz Wright, Meshell Ndegeocello, and The Roots. Karma is the composer/librettist of Indigo, a Blues opera. Her poems have appeared in Nocturnes: (re)view of the Literary Arts, Cave Canem’s Gathering Ground, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by The Field, the D.C. Humanities Council, and the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund (for Fiction). Karma's innovative play, Race Card, was lauded as 'powerful, political theater' by the New York Times.
She is based on Lenape land in Brooklyn, New York and originally from Chicago, of Mississippi heritage. As a practitioner of Sacred Rootwork, she shares applied indigenous healing modalities within social justice movement spaces. She is a co-founder of the Wind & Warrior Institute for Liberatory Healing. A Cave Canem Fellow since 1998, she was the Inaugural Toi Derricotte Fellow at Ucross in Wyoming in 2020. She is deeply interested in synaesthesia, improvisation, the electromagnetics of color and sound, the metaphysics of Funk, the effects of digital media on mitochondria, and the poetics inherent in such explorations.
Cave Canem Regional Workshops
Cave Canem’s workshops are rare opportunities for poets of all experience levels to work with and learn directly from accomplished poets in Cave Canem’s network. Limited to small enrollment groups, these multiple-session workshops offer rigorous instruction, careful critique, and an introduction to the work of influential poets. Workshops are tuition-free and free to apply. Learn more.
Funding & Partners
This program is hosted in partnership with The Bowery Club. Cave Canem's New York City Regional Workshops are made possible with the support of the Jerome Foundation.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, United States
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