Dream Poetics: A Generative Workshop

with Wendy Chen

September 30th from 2PM to 4PM ET via Zoom

How can dreams serve as the basis for new work? How can the study of dream logic become a tool for us as writers in our artistic practice? In this course, we’ll close-read several poems that engage in dream poetics by authors such as Jackie Wang, Hélène Cixous, and Edgar Garcia. We will then use dreams as material to generate poems through several exercises and prompts.  

Meet Your Instructor 

Wendy Chen is the author of Unearthings (Tavern Books), editor of Figure 1, and associate editor-in-chief of Tupelo Quarterly. She earned her MFA in poetry from Syracuse University and her PhD in English at the University of Denver. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Algonquin in 2024. Her translation of Song-dynasty writer Li Qingzhao is forthcoming from FSG in 2025. Currently, she teaches poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.