Home School Fundraiser
Donation protected
Hi everyone,
Something amazing happened, that now I'm pursuing the study of, but I'd like to request your help.
Last year the first poem I've ever had published was selected to appear in Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color edited by Christopher Soto.
This means my poem about Indigenous feminism appears alongside the work of literary icons and powerhouses like Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Ai, Candace Williams, Danez Smith, Joy Harjo, Justin Chin, Natalie Diaz, Nikki Giovanni, Ocean Vuong, Paula Gunn Allen, Pat Parker, Ren Hang, Richard Blanco, and others!
It's an incredible place to have one's work published. I am deeply honored to be there alongside them. And in these times I'm extremely grateful this anthology will be used in educational settings. The funny thing is that I didn't consider myself a poet. I've never even been in a poetry workshop. But I've read a lot of poetry, attended many readings, and have been mentored by poets like Fay Chiang and Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán (who've supported me with other areas of life).
This anthology is a project of the Lambda Literary Foundation and Nightboat Books that is a historic survey of American poetry written over the last one hundred years by Queer poets of color (from the Harlem Renaissance to the present). As a result, I'm taking this turn of events as a sign that I ought to formally study poetry–that I should invest in an education for something I love and have displayed a strong aptitude for.
Recently I received a partial scholarship from the Home School Hudson to study poetry for a week but am requesting help to pay for the rest of the tuition and expenses:
$925: Tuition
$476: Accommodations
$199: Travel Costs
The Home School's (formerly known as the Ashbery Home School) mission is to infuse poetry education with an interdisciplinary approach grounded in the fine arts and multimedia. Their philosophy is a wonderful fit for me as a visual artist and art writer and I'm very excited to join this group. It'll be held in Hudson, NY where we get to work in-depth with these poets: Eileen Myles, Che Gossett, Divya Victor, Myung Mi Kim, Harryette Mullen, CAConrad, Frank Wilderson III, and Adam Fitzgerald. I believe it will be a powerful creative and community experience that will help me grow exponentially as a poet.
Thank you in advance for considering this request.
Here's more information on the workshops and anthology:
FACULTY + PROGRAM: HOME SCHOOL HUDSON 2018
http://www.thehomeschool.org/program/#
http://www.thehomeschool.org/faculty/
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color Paperback – Published May 1, 2018
http://nightboat.org/title/nepantla-anthology-dedicated-queer-poets-color
https://www.amazon.com/Nepantla-Anthology-Dedicated-QueerPoets/dp/1937658783
NEPANTLA: AN ANTHOLOGY (Q&A WITH EDITOR CHRISTOPHER SOTO)
https://www.kenyonreview.org/2018/05/nepantla-an-anthology-qa-with-editorchristopher-soto/
Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors (includes a contribution I wrote)
http://www.vidaweb.org/nepantlas-queer-women-of-color-odes-to-literary-ancestors/
-
My formal studies in poetry began with “Race in the Media: A Poetry Workshop” led by Chet’la Sebree and Margaret Rhee that is part of Alex Juhasz’s collaborative poetry project #100hardrtuths-#fakenews, a radical digital media literacy project in the face of fake news. It was a wonderful experience that showed me more of the potential of the form, but it also revealed the limits of what I know. Please check them out also:
#100hardrtuths-#fakenews: http://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/index
Race in the Media: A Poetry Workshop: https://www.pw.org/literary_events/race_in_the_media_a_poetry_workshop
-
Here's some info on my mentors mentioned above:
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán:
https://www.pw.org/content/ahimsa_timoteo_bodhr%C3%A1n
Fay Chiang: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/obituaries/fay-chiang-65-poet-who-championed-asian-american-culture-dies.html
Something amazing happened, that now I'm pursuing the study of, but I'd like to request your help.
Last year the first poem I've ever had published was selected to appear in Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color edited by Christopher Soto.
This means my poem about Indigenous feminism appears alongside the work of literary icons and powerhouses like Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Ai, Candace Williams, Danez Smith, Joy Harjo, Justin Chin, Natalie Diaz, Nikki Giovanni, Ocean Vuong, Paula Gunn Allen, Pat Parker, Ren Hang, Richard Blanco, and others!
It's an incredible place to have one's work published. I am deeply honored to be there alongside them. And in these times I'm extremely grateful this anthology will be used in educational settings. The funny thing is that I didn't consider myself a poet. I've never even been in a poetry workshop. But I've read a lot of poetry, attended many readings, and have been mentored by poets like Fay Chiang and Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán (who've supported me with other areas of life).
This anthology is a project of the Lambda Literary Foundation and Nightboat Books that is a historic survey of American poetry written over the last one hundred years by Queer poets of color (from the Harlem Renaissance to the present). As a result, I'm taking this turn of events as a sign that I ought to formally study poetry–that I should invest in an education for something I love and have displayed a strong aptitude for.
Recently I received a partial scholarship from the Home School Hudson to study poetry for a week but am requesting help to pay for the rest of the tuition and expenses:
$925: Tuition
$476: Accommodations
$199: Travel Costs
The Home School's (formerly known as the Ashbery Home School) mission is to infuse poetry education with an interdisciplinary approach grounded in the fine arts and multimedia. Their philosophy is a wonderful fit for me as a visual artist and art writer and I'm very excited to join this group. It'll be held in Hudson, NY where we get to work in-depth with these poets: Eileen Myles, Che Gossett, Divya Victor, Myung Mi Kim, Harryette Mullen, CAConrad, Frank Wilderson III, and Adam Fitzgerald. I believe it will be a powerful creative and community experience that will help me grow exponentially as a poet.
Thank you in advance for considering this request.
Here's more information on the workshops and anthology:
FACULTY + PROGRAM: HOME SCHOOL HUDSON 2018
http://www.thehomeschool.org/program/#
http://www.thehomeschool.org/faculty/
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color Paperback – Published May 1, 2018
http://nightboat.org/title/nepantla-anthology-dedicated-queer-poets-color
https://www.amazon.com/Nepantla-Anthology-Dedicated-QueerPoets/dp/1937658783
NEPANTLA: AN ANTHOLOGY (Q&A WITH EDITOR CHRISTOPHER SOTO)
https://www.kenyonreview.org/2018/05/nepantla-an-anthology-qa-with-editorchristopher-soto/
Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors (includes a contribution I wrote)
http://www.vidaweb.org/nepantlas-queer-women-of-color-odes-to-literary-ancestors/
-
My formal studies in poetry began with “Race in the Media: A Poetry Workshop” led by Chet’la Sebree and Margaret Rhee that is part of Alex Juhasz’s collaborative poetry project #100hardrtuths-#fakenews, a radical digital media literacy project in the face of fake news. It was a wonderful experience that showed me more of the potential of the form, but it also revealed the limits of what I know. Please check them out also:
#100hardrtuths-#fakenews: http://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/index
Race in the Media: A Poetry Workshop: https://www.pw.org/literary_events/race_in_the_media_a_poetry_workshop
-
Here's some info on my mentors mentioned above:
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán:
https://www.pw.org/content/ahimsa_timoteo_bodhr%C3%A1n
Fay Chiang: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/obituaries/fay-chiang-65-poet-who-championed-asian-american-culture-dies.html
Organizer
Irene Villasenor
Organizer
New York, NY