About this Event
Each month, we'll read and discuss a different text to inspire our own free-write session, drawing from women's stories of power, madness, sensuality, tragedy, queerness, and insubordination. Time will be set aside at the end of each meetup for folks to share excerpts of what they've written.
This January, we’ll delve into a selection of works by Alejandra Pizarnik, a sapphic, Jewish Argentinian poet whose verses grapple with death, memory, pain and perfection. Beneath it all is poetry’s desire “to heal the fundamental wound”, a pursuit of truth which grinds against the failures of language and surrenders to the sacred absolute, the flawless void we poets press on.
Written Women is led by poet, movement artist and facilitator Katya Borkov. You can learn more about her work at www.everythingspills.studio, or on instagram @everything.spills
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Agenda
Introduction to this month's material
Collective readings
Guided discussion
Generative writing prompts
Concluding group share
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cordelia, 942 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, United States
USD 0.00
