Writing Workshop: The Luminous Mind: Waking up the Poet Inside with Julian Talamantez Brolaski *IN PERSON*

In this generative poetry workshop, we will engage various prompts, experiments, poems, and meditative technologies as guides for tuning our instruments of perception to the cosmic mind—that is to say, to the spirit and intelligence of the Poem itself. We will call on who Joy Harjo calls our ‘poetry ancestors.’ This will not be a traditional workshop, there will be no critiques, rather we will explore methods of generating work through both passive (being ‘inspired’) and active modes of writing. We will write together individually and collaboratively in a safe and supportive atmosphere. Through deep attention, we will search for the pulse of the earth’s heartbeat, to enliven our own hearts and enlarge our ‘vision,’ and to employ this in the service of making poems.

Julian Talamantez Brolaski (it/xe/them) is a poet and country singer, the author of Of Mongrelitude (2017), Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012), and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011). Julian is a 2023 Bagley Wright lecturer, a 2021 Pew Foundation Fellow, and the recipient of the 2020 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. Its poems were recently included in When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020), and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020). With its band Juan & the Pines, it released an EP Glittering Forest in 2019; Julian’s first full-length album It's Okay Honey came out in August 2023.