Writing Deliciously: The Poetry of Food Led By Jane Wong

Saturday, May 21st & Sunday, May 22nd, 2022 | 12:00 PM ET - 3:00 PM ET

Tuition | $100.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

In "From Blossoms," poet Li-Young Lee writes: "O, to take what we love inside, / to carry within us an orchard."

In this 2-day workshop, together, we will delve into the intimate sensory memories that food evokes. How can writing about food open up evocative spaces of comfort, family, memory, shared rituals, and desires? How can writing through and about food radically strengthen our communities and open up our creative craft? Along with celebrating and exploring food writing by poets and writers such as Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Chen Chen, we will write together inspired by delicious writing prompts. Bring lots of snacks!

About the Faculty: Jane Wong (she/her) is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James Books (2021) and Overpour from Action Books. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. Her poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, POETRY, AGNI, Third Coast, New England Review, and others. Her essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Common, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Closed captioning is provided. Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.