My New York City
My New York City is a six-session online creative writing workshop from Parachute Literary Arts and poet/filmmaker SM Gray in which participants explore, reflect, and write about their NYC borough, neighborhood or other meaningful city locations, through memory and personal stories. This series is recommended for adults and teens.
Registration is limited. Please register and you will receive a link to Zoom the day before the event. Note: You must register for each of the six sessions separately.
What does it mean to really "know" a neighborhood, city, or street? What do you know that others don't? Poet and filmmaker SM Gray will conduct a 6-week community creative writing workshop exploring self and memory through New York City. Poetry and prose about NYC will be introduced for inspiration, exploring themes such as gentrification, neighborhoods and "vanishing" NYC. Writing prompts will be given to encourage drawing out hidden or lesser seen stories, and participants may go out into their neighborhoods to write about and get inspired by nearby locations. Participants’ new writings will be shared weekly with classmates and instructor for feedback.
During and post-workshop, participants will be invited to share their writing by email and to post on Parachute’s Twitter @ParachuteArts, with the hashtag #MyNewYorkCity. This workshop is open to those who have never taken this workshops and those who have taken the workshop once. For those who have taken it more than once, we ask that you wait one summer before rejoining. Please feel free to contact Parachute at parachutefestival@gmail.com with any questions.
Poet-filmmaker SM Gray has taught the My NYC poetry workshop going on three years now. Gray is the author of seven poetry collections, including the book Shorthand and Electric Language Stars (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2015), and the chapbooks Words Are What You Get/You Do It For Real (above/ground press, 2019) and A Country Road Going Back in Your Direction (Argos Books, 2015). Gray’s experimental city-films have screened internationally including a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives in 2015.
My New York City is a six-session online creative writing workshop from Parachute Literary Arts and poet/filmmaker SM Gray in which participants explore, reflect, and write about their NYC borough, neighborhood or other meaningful city locations, through memory and personal stories. This series is recommended for adults and teens.
Registration is limited. Please register and you will receive a link to Zoom the day before the event. Note: You must register for each of the six sessions separately.
What does it mean to really "know" a neighborhood, city, or street? What do you know that others don't? Poet and filmmaker SM Gray will conduct a 6-week community creative writing workshop exploring self and memory through New York City. Poetry and prose about NYC will be introduced for inspiration, exploring themes such as gentrification, neighborhoods and "vanishing" NYC. Writing prompts will be given to encourage drawing out hidden or lesser seen stories, and participants may go out into their neighborhoods to write about and get inspired by nearby locations. Participants’ new writings will be shared weekly with classmates and instructor for feedback.
During and post-workshop, participants will be invited to share their writing by email and to post on Parachute’s Twitter @ParachuteArts, with the hashtag #MyNewYorkCity. This workshop is open to those who have never taken this workshops and those who have taken the workshop once. For those who have taken it more than once, we ask that you wait one summer before rejoining. Please feel free to contact Parachute at parachutefestival@gmail.com with any questions.
Poet-filmmaker SM Gray has taught the My NYC poetry workshop going on three years now. Gray is the author of seven poetry collections, including the book Shorthand and Electric Language Stars (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2015), and the chapbooks Words Are What You Get/You Do It For Real (above/ground press, 2019) and A Country Road Going Back in Your Direction (Argos Books, 2015). Gray’s experimental city-films have screened internationally including a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives in 2015.
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