Writing Class & Labor in Poetry
with Halee Kirkwood
$60 — Saturday, February 22 @ 12 PM EST / 9 AM PST / 11 AM CST / 5 PM BST
2 Hours via Zoom
Overview of the Workshop
Issues of class and labor affect every poet, regardless of where one lies on the socio-economic spectrum. In this class, we will examine class and labor as generative subjects particularly suited to speak back to power. How can poetry imagine new, anti-capitalist networks of mutual exchange? Where does the lyric live in your 9-5?
We will also discuss and share strategies for “stealing” time from employers, incorporating our creative practice into the dullest of jobs.
Prompts and discussions will be sprinkled throughout the session, and everyone is encouraged to participate at the pace they desire. Come to this class ready to write, laugh, commiserate, and build community!
Instructor Bio
Halee Kirkwood is a poet, teaching artist, and bookseller living in Minneapolis, MN. Kirkwood is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and has received fellowships and grants from In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poetry), The Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series program, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. The winner of the 2022 James Welch Prize, published with Poetry Northwest, Kirkwood has work published or forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, December Magazine, Ecotone Magazine, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast Journal, Water~Stone Review, Poem-A-Day, and others. Kirkwood earned their MFA in poetry from Hamline University. They are a direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.