What’s Eating You? Writing Food Poems

Workshop Description
Open to all levels
2 hours
via Zoom

In this culinary-inspired workshop we will explore the works of poets like Jane Wong, Danez Smith, Chen Chen to discover how contemporary poets “eat” within their poems. Learn tactics for cooking food into poetry and discover the metaphorical depth of food as a love language. We will encounter themes of rot, scarcity, indulgence, and doubt.

About the Workshop Series
The BrainTrust is a sliding-scale, affordably priced poetry class!

The Poetry Lab is a community learning space dedicated to mentoring and encouraging poets and writers as they craft their learning journeys. We welcome first-time poets, moms and dads, high school students, MFA holders, architects, and artists of all genres and mediums to attend as long as they are ready to write!

More about the Series:

• Live Online Monthly Classes
• Meet and Work with Writers Just Like You!
• Always Affordably Priced
• Poetry-Focused
• Friendly Instructors, Interactive Sessions

Sliding Scale
Please pay what you can! $8-$32

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About the Instructor:
Karen Zheng (she/her) is a first-generation, queer, Chinese-American. Her poetry has been featured in Emerson Review, Sine Theta Magazine, Honey Literary, The Wave, and elsewhere. She is a Breadloaf Writers’ Conference Contributor in 2022 and a Roots. Wounds. Words Poetry Fellow in 2023. In her free time, she hosts the Mx. Asian American podcast and Tucked in Bed podcast. Find out more about her at https://www.karenzheng.com/.

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