LATINX SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: POETICS & POLITICS – A 6-wk workshop with Urayoán Noel


This workshop will focus on Latinx social movements (broadly defined) and their relationship to poetic practices and imaginaries. Since this is a generative workshop, we will be using key Latinx texts (mainly poetry, but also performance, music, visual art, manifesto, essay, memoir, etc.) as points of departure for our own embodied poetics, on or off the page. From 19th-century forerunners to the poets of the Chicano and Puerto Rican movements of the 1960s and 1970s to a range of contemporary Latinx poetics, the workshop will examine the coalitional possibilities of Latinidad while centering critical voices representing perspectives historically marginalized within mainstream Latinidad (e.g. Black, Indigenous, queer, undocumented, disabled). Participants will be encouraged to consider a decolonial range of poetic and political possibilities.

Weekly on Zoom, Saturdays 1-3 pm EST
Six Sessions, Beginning July 25


About the Facilitator:

Urayoán Noel is a Puerto Rican poet, critic, performer, and translator, who is currently an associate professor of English and Spanish at New York University and also teaches at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (2015) and the forthcoming Transversal, both with the University of Arizona Press. Also forthcoming is 24/7. Obra poética escrita, 2000-2020(Catafixia Editorial, Guatemala), a volume of his selected poetry, edited and introduced by José Miguel Curet. His critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press, 2014) received the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and was an honorable mention for the MLA Prize in US Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. His translations include No Budu Please by Wingston González (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman Books, 2018), which was a finalist for the National Translation Award. He has recently performed at the Berlin Poesiefestival and the Toronto Biennial of Art, and his poetry is currently on display as part of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico’s permanent exhibit. Noel has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Schomburg Center, Macondo, and CantoMundo. He lives in the Bronx and vlogs at wokitokiteki.com. [photo: Luis Carle]


ALL ACCESS PRICING MODEL / PAY WHAT YOU CAN / COMPARISON COSTS:

Liminal Lab is committed to providing a source of income for our collaborators and facilitators in an increasingly precarious time for culture workers and educators. However, no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. We ask that those who can pay the suggested price, and/or help cover the cost of scholarship slots in each of our programs by sponsoring other participants. 

  • Compare the below to the cost for a similar accredited workshop in a university setting (where most of the $$$ goes to institutional bloat):  $1035  — we show you this so we can begin to think about wtf is happening in our institutions, where both students and faculty get the short end of the stick.
  • At a standard “Market Rate,” at arts orgs: $350*
  • Recommended Sliding Scale: $30-50/session → $180-300 for the series
  • Precarity Pricing: $10-20/session
  • Barter / Volunteer / No Cost Option Available 
  • Sponsorship: You may sponsor low or no fee participants in this workshop with a donation of any size.*if you have the funds to afford the “Market Rate,” we encourage you to support this facilitator by donating at that level, which will also support other students in this course who are unable to pay.


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