Rescuscitations

An Intimate Re-Visioning Lab with Janice Lee and Daniel Isaiah Elder

Four Thursdays: May 8, 15, 22, and June 5, from from 1pm-3pm PST (no meeting May 29th)
(A recording of each session will be made available to all registrants for a limited period afterwards.)

How do you bring dead writing back to life? Let's say you have a half-formed essay or poem or story but you don't know what to do with it. Or you have writing that is trying to get your attention, but you can't yet see what it wants from you yet. Or you are being haunted by a start to something that didn't go anywhere. Do you have work that is calling you back?

In this intimate four-week creative lab, together as a collaborative reading and writing group we will help you find generative revision opportunities within a single short work. Bring one double-spaced page of writing and we will show you several creative strategies for resuscitation in small group collaboration. This collaboration is useful for poets, memoir writers, fiction writers, hybrid writers, and anyone who understands that artistic practice is intimately related to the practice of living a life in a body.

This lab has a 14 participant limit.

Note: Please be sure that you are able to commit to 100% attendance and collaboration with 13 other people.

For an additional contribution of $250, participants have the option of submitting up to 10 double-spaced pages of writing to Janice and Daniel at the end of the four weeks—they’ll read your work, send you a page of collaborative notes on possibilities they see within it, and offer specific generative revision portals for your piece. (If you register and are interested in this option, our registrar Daniel will arrange separate payment at the end of the lab.)

Pricing:

The following payment model is inspired by and borrowed from the payment model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class, We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks.

This workshop offers a sliding scale based on your relative financial standing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your financial wealth (retirement/savings/investments); your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and the world; are you expecting an inheritance); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$500 Partner

$400 Supporter (Note: This amount reflects the “real” value of this course.)

$300 Companion

Payment plans are also available for anyone needing further financial assistance. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info, or if you are feeling challenged in any way by the financial requirements of participation.

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Janice Lee (she/they) is a Korean American writer, teacher, spiritual scholar, and shamanic healer. She is the author of 8 books of fiction, creative nonfiction, & poetry, most recently Imagine a Death (Texas Review Press, 2021), Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Oregon Book Award, and A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, a collaborative novel co-authored with Brenda Iijima (Meekling Press, 2023). An essay (co-authored with Jared Woodland) is featured in the recently released 4K restoration of Sátántangó (dir. Béla Tarr) from Arbelos Films. 

She writes about interspecies communication, plants & personhood, the filmic long take, slowness, the apocalypse, architectural spaces, inherited trauma, and the Korean concept of han, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? Lee teaches workshops on inherited trauma, healing and writing, and facilitates guided meditations bringing together elements from several different lineages as a mesa-carrying practitioner of the Q’ero tradition of medicine work and as a practitioner of Engaged Buddhism (in the tradition of Plum Village and Thich Nhat Hanh). She also incorporates elements of ancestor work, Korean shamanic ritual (Muism), traditional Korean folk practices, plant medicine & flower essence work, card readings & divination, and interspecies communication.

She currently lives in Portland, OR where she is the Operational Creative Director at Corporeal Writing and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University. She can be found online at http://janicel.com and Instagram: @diddioz.

Daniel Isaiah Elder (he/they) is a Jewish writer from Queens, New York. A 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow, his work has appeared in The Rumpus, Catapult, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Witch Craft Magazine, and many more literary journals. He lives and writes in Portland, Oregon.