Events
Upcoming Events
May 2, 8-11 PM EST & after party
Three of Cups, Ithaca Spring Writes Literary Festival
Deep Dive, Ithaca, NY
Three of Cups is a celebration of borderlessness, a vast expanse, a bigger dream of what can be literary and what can be possible. Expect poems read, sung, music played, burlesquing, visual art, projection, imperfection, ending in a large group collaboration— all performed by femmes & thems only. You’re invited to a sister showcase to last year’s Two of Cups, both born of the anti-academic, chaos-blessed poet, visual artist, event producer nicole v basta’s refusal to accept creative constraints. Performers include: Winniebell Xinyu Zong, Jamaica Baldwin, Silver Rein, Erin the Axe, Lily Codera, nicole v basta, and Annie Sumi.
Past Readings
2024
Issue #30 “COARSE 糙” Launch Reading, Sine Theta Magazine — Virtual
2023
Launch Reading: Cherry Moon: Emerging Voices from the Asian Diaspora, Gasher Press, Unnameable books — Brooklyn, NY
2023 MFA Graduation Reading, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Cornell University — Ithaca, NY
Launch Reading: UNDERSHORE by Kelly Hoffer, Buffalo Street Books — Ithaca, NY
2022
MFA Reading Series, Buffalo Street Books — Ithaca, NY
“Liminal: A Group Reading” (04:24-14:30), Spring Writes Literary Festival — Ithaca, NY
“Alchemy of Care: Poetry Night” Cornell Asian American Studies Program — Ithaca, NY
“Omiprom: Cornell x UMass x Iowa MFA Reading” — Virtual
2021
“Farewell Reading” Department of English, Kansas State University — Manhattan, KS
2020
“Mother Tongue Open Mic” American Poetry Museum — Virtual
2019
Driptorch Reading Series, Arrow Coffee Co. — Manhattan, KS
Little Patuxent Review Issue 25 Launch Reading — Baltimore, MD
2018
“Turning Wheels” DogStar Books — Lancaster, PA
Exhibitions & Screenings
2023
Two of Cups: Experiments & Collaborations in Poetry, Movement, Music, & Film, short film documentary & poetry reading in collab. w/ Yuan Chen, Spring Writes Literary Festival — Ithaca, NY
Moving (Images): Experiments in Poetry & Film, short film documentary & poetry reading in collab. w/ Yuan Chen. Cornell Cinema — Ithaca, NY
2022
Pursuit: Exhibition, short film documentary & misc. assemblage in collab. w/ Yuan Chen, Mellon Collaborative Studies for Architecture: “Seeing to Be in the Aftermath.” Cherry Gallery, The Cherry Arts Inc. — Ithaca, NY
Conferences & Talks
2023
"Dystopian Present | Utopian Crescent: Dreaming of Reciprocity with Futuristic Writers of Color." EGSO 2023 Conference: Reciprocity, Cornell University — Ithaca, NY
2022
Creative Writing Panel, EGSO 2023 Conference: Aspiration, Cornell University — Ithaca, NY
2020
“Is Anyone Out There? Fostering Community in Rural Places” C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference — Virtual
2019
“Poet This!” 16th Annual CityLit Festival — Baltimore, MD
Past Workshop
8-Week Online Advanced Poetry Workshop, Summer 2023
Fiery, Futures, & Fun!: Learning to Transform & Create Poetic Forms
How does one transform a sonnet into an ars poetica, spoken word, or the duplex? How does the duplex take a fervent nod at blues? What will emerge when we mix and match radically different poetry possibilities together, such as an erasure, a haibun, & a contrapuntal, and a visual poem? What will surprise us when we dare to break with the page and let our poetry stack, leap, draw, sing, or smell?
In this generative poetry workshop, we will dive hungrily into the works of living contemporary poets, such as Terrance Hayes, Diana Khoi Nguyen, TC Tolbert, Eve L. Ewing, Dunya Mikhail, and Ally Ang. Through in-depth discussions, we will ruminate on the poems critically and creatively, threading the structures that their language weaves around. We will experiment with 6 vibrant poetic forms and their close relatives, including but not limited to 3 newly invented forms: the duplex by Jericho Brown, the burning haibun by torrin a. greathouse, and the golden shovel by Terrance Hayes. And of course, we will devote warmth and constructive notes for each other's writing in regular workshops. In our 8 weeks together, not only will you play with a handful of forms you've never poet-ed in and find joy (or get lost?) in hybrid mediums and wayward dreamscapes, I will also guide you through inventing your very own poetic form (!). Excited? Me, too!
So c'mon! Join a talented and supportive cohort of peers. Let's make the unknown fun. Let's make restraints liberating. Let's be the future of poetic possibilities!
Student Cap: 10 students
Eligibility: 9th grade to college sophomore
Course Meetings: Tuesdays @ 7:30-9:30pm ET
Course Dates: June 13th - August 1st
Background film still credit : Elías José Beltrán, Jing Zong, edited by Yuan Chen (Six Thousand Miles to Tomorrow, 2022)