The Pop-Hop is psyched to host our first-ever writing workshop series, hosted by local author & poet Kim Young!

In this four-week workshop students will experiment with drafting new poems that begin in research and then depart from those sources using speculation, intuition, and other creative strategies. We’ll study Kevin Stein’s Private Poets, Worldly Acts and Saidiya Hartman’s process of “critical fabulation” in her essay “Venus in Two Acts” while applying creative practices that challenge the stability of the historical archive. Our reading will include Eve L. Ewing’s 1919, Shane McCrae’s In the Language of My Captor,, Robin Coste Lewis’ To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness and more. Students will workshop new poems each week, and we’ll conclude the class with a final reading featuring student.

Kim Young is the author of Tigers (PANK Books, 2020) and Night Radio, winner of the 2011 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize (The University of Utah Press) and finalist for the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the chapbook Divided Highway (Dancing Girl Press, 2008). She is the founding editor of Chaparral, an online journal featuring poetry from Southern California, and her poems and essays have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, TriQuarterly, POOL and elsewhere.

*Enrollment for this course is currently full.