Cat Sassy, Kitty Meow & Nine Lives—Cat Waxing Moon Poetics in a Time of Disenchantment: a Generative Workshop with Karen Finley (via Zoom)
This workshop is going to embrace the Cat as character, symbol, friend, metaphor, archetype and familiar. The Cat Lady, the Cat Daddy, the pet, the childhood friend. The cat holds our secrets, grief, joy and sorrow. The cat and the hat. Whiskers. Magic cat. Crazy cat. Finley will create a series of prompts and writing exercises to explore your inner and outer catness. Finley introduce the session with examples and reflections to being our workshop. You will be able to develop your writing further, share your work and consider different perspectives to experiment within a workshop atmosphere. Emerging, returning and practicing creatives welcome. Introverts are fine in our space. This will be a two-hour generative poetry workshop with award-winning poet and artist, Karen Finley.
NB: This class will be taught on Zoom and will be capped at 20 students. Registrants will receive the Zoom link to the email address they use to register. It will arrive immediately after registration so please check your spam folder if you do not receive it. It will also be sent the day before class as a reminder. Please review the course policies page before registering for any classes. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
Don’t miss Karen Finely when she reads in person at HVWC on Sunday March 2. Register for that reading here: https://writerscenter.org/calendar/march2poetry/
Karen Finley is an artist, performer, and poet. Born in Chicago, she received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Finley was the named plaintiff for the Supreme Court case Finley v. NEA that challenged the decency provision in government grants to artists through the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been presented internationally such as the Barbican in London; Lincoln Center, New York City; Art Basel in Miami; and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others. She is the author of nine books, including Grabbing Pussy (OR Books, 2018), the 25th anniversary edition of Shock Treatment (City Lights, 2015), and The Reality Shows (Feminist Press, 2011). A recipient of many awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is a professor in Art and Public Policy at New York University. She lives in Westchester County, New York. Her new book, COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco will be published by City Lights Publishers in March 2025.
