New Year Resolutions Generative Workshop with Karen Finley (via Zoom)

This will be a three-hour generative poetry workshop with award-winning poet and artist, Karen Finley. More information will be posted as we have it. Please email misty@writerscenter.org with any questions.

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.