4/30, 5/7, 5/14 Series - Experiments in Writing the Body While Ill with Elizabeth Pinborough - $60
Date: 4/30, 5/7, 5/14
Time: 10 am - 11 am PST
Cost: $75/$60 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
The experience of being ill can baffle the mind and exhaust our vocabulary. Ruptures to a writer's ability to communicate may even require that they find new ways of communicating baffling, embodied changes. In this gentle generative workshop, we will explore new ways to write the body while ill. Drawing on diagram, ekphrasis, calligram, historical illustration, and scientific documents, writers will consider new ways to map their experiences of the sick body on the page. Artists like Suleika Jaouad, Yoko Ono, Monica Ong, Virginia Woolf, Frida Khalo, and other contemporary voices will be our guides. After this three-part workshop (kept to 1-hour per class to facilitate less exhaustion for those dealing with illness), writers will be equipped with exercises and seed work that will reinvigorate their writing practice and offer dignity to the experience of being a writer who is ill.
Elizabeth Pinborough is an artist and writer who helps people love their unique, lovely brains. She believes that the brain is the greatest asset any of us has and that it’s vital to take care of throughout life. Elizabeth is a graduate of BYU and Yale Divinity School, yet what qualifies her to do this work is seven years of healing a traumatic brain injury, which has required creativity, dogged determination, and a good amount of starting again. Her first poetry collection, The Brain’s Lectionary: Psalms and Observations (BCCPress 2022), combines word and image to reimagine what the writer’s brain looks like in the wake of a language-disrupting injury. Elizabeth is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she can be found making poetry out of neuroscience and art out of paint, pen, thread, and cloth.
Date: 4/30, 5/7, 5/14
Time: 10 am - 11 am PST
Cost: $75/$60 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
The experience of being ill can baffle the mind and exhaust our vocabulary. Ruptures to a writer's ability to communicate may even require that they find new ways of communicating baffling, embodied changes. In this gentle generative workshop, we will explore new ways to write the body while ill. Drawing on diagram, ekphrasis, calligram, historical illustration, and scientific documents, writers will consider new ways to map their experiences of the sick body on the page. Artists like Suleika Jaouad, Yoko Ono, Monica Ong, Virginia Woolf, Frida Khalo, and other contemporary voices will be our guides. After this three-part workshop (kept to 1-hour per class to facilitate less exhaustion for those dealing with illness), writers will be equipped with exercises and seed work that will reinvigorate their writing practice and offer dignity to the experience of being a writer who is ill.
Elizabeth Pinborough is an artist and writer who helps people love their unique, lovely brains. She believes that the brain is the greatest asset any of us has and that it’s vital to take care of throughout life. Elizabeth is a graduate of BYU and Yale Divinity School, yet what qualifies her to do this work is seven years of healing a traumatic brain injury, which has required creativity, dogged determination, and a good amount of starting again. Her first poetry collection, The Brain’s Lectionary: Psalms and Observations (BCCPress 2022), combines word and image to reimagine what the writer’s brain looks like in the wake of a language-disrupting injury. Elizabeth is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she can be found making poetry out of neuroscience and art out of paint, pen, thread, and cloth.
Date: 4/30, 5/7, 5/14
Time: 10 am - 11 am PST
Cost: $75/$60 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
The experience of being ill can baffle the mind and exhaust our vocabulary. Ruptures to a writer's ability to communicate may even require that they find new ways of communicating baffling, embodied changes. In this gentle generative workshop, we will explore new ways to write the body while ill. Drawing on diagram, ekphrasis, calligram, historical illustration, and scientific documents, writers will consider new ways to map their experiences of the sick body on the page. Artists like Suleika Jaouad, Yoko Ono, Monica Ong, Virginia Woolf, Frida Khalo, and other contemporary voices will be our guides. After this three-part workshop (kept to 1-hour per class to facilitate less exhaustion for those dealing with illness), writers will be equipped with exercises and seed work that will reinvigorate their writing practice and offer dignity to the experience of being a writer who is ill.
Elizabeth Pinborough is an artist and writer who helps people love their unique, lovely brains. She believes that the brain is the greatest asset any of us has and that it’s vital to take care of throughout life. Elizabeth is a graduate of BYU and Yale Divinity School, yet what qualifies her to do this work is seven years of healing a traumatic brain injury, which has required creativity, dogged determination, and a good amount of starting again. Her first poetry collection, The Brain’s Lectionary: Psalms and Observations (BCCPress 2022), combines word and image to reimagine what the writer’s brain looks like in the wake of a language-disrupting injury. Elizabeth is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she can be found making poetry out of neuroscience and art out of paint, pen, thread, and cloth.