The Archive: A Grounding with Brenda Iijima

Lostintheletters is overjoyed to present this fantastic opportunity to expand the concept of an archive and how archived materials can feed creative growth!

About the workshop:​​

Archives are repositories. An archive can be one’s personal collection of memorabilia, writings, or more formally, an accumulation of historical records and materials stored at an institutional facility. Databases are archives. Memory is an archive. The Earth as a planetary body is an archive. Sedimentary layers reveal lived histories. How can we engage various archives to find grounding and inspiration in challenging social, political times? How do we store, retrieve and work creatively with archived materials? What can archives avail for our creative practices? This workshop will involve discussion and immersive writing prompts.

About Brenda Iijima:

Brenda Iijima is a poet, novelist, playwright, choreographer, and visual artist. She is the author of nine books of poetry. Her involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of genre, mode, receptivity, and field of study. Her current work engages submerged and occluded histories, other-than-human expressiveness and telluric awareness in all forms. A novel, Shelter is Necessary for Existence is forthcoming from Two Dollar Radio in 2026. Iijima is the founding editor-publisher of Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Brooklyn.

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