A radical language-making workshop: Poems for words that don't exist (yet)

In this workshop of radical language-making, we will explore a bilateral approach through both writing neologisms (newly-coined word) and kennings (figurative meanings via compound words).

Through three linked writing exercises, we will reshape, enhance and expand our lexical innovations onto our babbling world. This will be a workshop on innovative language-making that will lead to the creation of a poem based on your newly-created word.
About the host:
Winston Lê is a Vietnamese diaspora poet, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural worker who resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish Peoples. His writing has been featured in, filling Station, ROOted Rhythms, Composed: anthology of poetry 2024, Poetry Pause, periodicities, Sparkling Tongue Press, Ekphrasis Magazine, and pagefiftyone. He is the author of three poetry chapbooks, translanguaging, hybrid utterance, Thhhhh. His debut chapbook, translanguaging was shortlisted for the 2018 Broken Pencil Zine Awards. Winston also has worked on various interdisciplinary collaborations with other artists, including multi-instrumentalist composer, Cameron Catalano, botanical artist, Katrina Vera Wong, and choreographer, Rob Kitsos. In April 2025, Lê was the poet-in-residence at Greywood Arts, an artist residency located in Cork, Ireland.

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