Name: RCLAS Writing Workshop: "to construe afrankenlang" with Winston Lê
Start: 2026-03-09T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-09T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Anvil Centre

$RCLAS Writing Workshop: "to construe afrankenlang" with Winston L\u00ea$

RCLAS Writing Workshop
"to construe afrankenlang" with Winston Lê
Date:Monday MARCH 9, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: ANVIL CENTRE | STUDIO 417, 777Columbia Street, New Westminster.
This workshop is Free BUT registration is required.
Email [email protected] to save your spot.
Workshop Description: A neologism is a new word or expression, or a new meaning for an existing word. Through this “coinage,” we’ll explore versatility and dynamic innovation of language-making.
In this workshop, we will explore how morphology (texture, sound,shape), semiotics (sign-making, interpretation), and re-materiality (physicalbody/vessel to embody the neologism) can reshape and enhance and expand ourlexical innovation onto our babbling world.
This will be a workshop on innovative linguistic processes that will lead to the creation of a poem based on your newly-created word.
This class will be both lecture and workshop base. We will begin by discussing the varying definitions and elements that make up a neologism, as well as how one might experiment with the concept further... Through threelinked generative writing exercises, we will explore a “exquisite corpse”approach in writing a poem based on a neologism and by doing so, destabilize and decolonize the nature of the poem and language itself.
We’re going to have fun stitching up some linguistic body horror!"
WinstonLê is a Vietnamese diaspora poet, interdisciplinary artist, and culturalworker who resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast SalishPeoples. His writing has been featured in The End Zine, filling Station,ROOted Rhythms, Composed: anthology of poetry 2024, PoetryPause, periodicities, Sparkling Tongue Press, Ekphrasis Magazine,and pagefiftyone. He is the author of three poetry chapbooks,translanguaging, hybridutterance, Thhhhh. His debut chapbook, translanguaging was shortlisted for the 2018Broken Pencil Zine Awards. Winston also has worked on variousinterdisciplinary collaborations with other artists, includingmulti-instrumentalist composer, Cameron Catalano, botanical artist, KatrinaVera Wong, and choreographer, Rob Kitsos. In April 2025, Lê was thepoet-in-residence at Greywood Arts, an artist residency located in Cork,Ireland.