Visual Poetics with Déy Rivers

Saturdays: 4/19 & 4/26 at 10am-12pm PT (Additional 1 hr “office hour”  TBD)

Sessions will NOT be recorded due to the vulnerable nature of the offering.  

Maximum capacity: 15 participants

To all who participate side effects may include: risk, gleeful destruction of text, some vulgar language, and unapologetic writing

You are cordially invited to give a fuck as we dive into the practices of erasure, blackout, redaction, and shape poems utilizing ekphrasis, historical documents, and emotionally charged missives. This practice is designed to allow for expressions of messy, generational, and/or societal emotions. The first session will give space and attention within a structure to focus on the creation of a poem from a document of your choice. The second session will focus on transmogrifying or engaging with an alternate artform to create a synonymous shape poem. 

There will be participation agreements around care, confidentiality, and emotional labor. 

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 course offers two sliding scales based on your relative financial standing. The huge range listed below is meant to reflect the incredible disparity in economic conditions of people living in different parts of the world, and also the historical reality of stolen wealth in many different forms, generally from the so-called Global South to the North. 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 how 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); 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.

$250 Partner

$175 Supporter (Note: this reflects the “real” value of this course.)

$125 Companion

$95 Friend

A limited number of scholarships are also available for anyone needing further financial assistance and especially for BIPOC. 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.

Déy Rivers is agender, non-conforming Black american caring for a depressed, anxious, c-ptsd brain and body through writing, visual art, poetry, and movement. They reside on Turtle Island where their work is inspired by various modes of storytelling, botanical motifs, queer relationships, and is in conversation with the past and present to imagine futures. They were a 2023 Periplus Fellow for fiction, 2023 Caldera Artist in Residence, recipient of 2021 RACC Make|Learn|Build Grant, 2020 PAM RE:Imagine Grant, and selected for the 2020 Ooligan Press Writers of Color Showcase. You can read some of their published written work online in Khôra Issues 22-25, and see some of their visual works at deyrivers.com.