The Earth Of:
Ruptures and Reckonings

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    • The Earth Of: Ruptures and Reckonings is a collective virtual space of inquiry. Through writing and discourse we investigate how to manifest and inhabit the fractures that pervade our lives, allowing for the creative space to grow organically through digressions, tangents, musings, and synchronistic linkages.

    What does it mean when humanity crosses a threshold of such significance it manifests as a rupture, when the world is on the cusp? The brain wants to organize, filter, and separate out. Yet, beyond the confusion perpetrated by language that fails to adequately define, are spaces. We find meaning when we implicitly inhabit these spaces—gestures that guide the cracks to spread toward shattering. These moments of rupture burst forth from gesture into reckoning, exposing us to what is real and true and essential.

    Who We Are

    To be a writer requires willingness to examine the uncomfortable, accept the paradoxical, and swim in the rupture.  Rooted firmly in love, trust, respect, and craft, our roles are interchangeable: sometimes creator, critic, instructor, student, friend. Our boundaries are fluid, creating a space that allows for a generative experience, both personally and creatively. Seen by each other, we become visible. Listened to, we begin to take up space. Collectively, we will each other to be known so that we may write from a place of presence, authority, and voice.
    Week One: I am Ten Birds Flying AwayThere are so Many Variations of Life
    Week Two:  Will They Notice What Imprint Remains?Vulnerability and Integrity are Revolutionary Acts
    Week Three: Bees Have to Move Very Fast to Stay Still Images, Lies, and the Appropriation of Perceptual Fields
    Week Four: What are the Collective Silences? Atomic Shadows and the Ashes of History   
    Weeks Five: Workshop and Final Reading

    Time and date:
    October 11 – November 20, 2021

    Two zooms a week. For 5 weeks. Tuesday or Wednesday and Saturday. Tuesday or Wednesday to discuss supplied texts, Saturday for listening critique of applicants work.

    Final week for edits and revisions leading to final reading that will be open to the public.

    Zoom meetings will last from one to 2 hours depending.

    Length:
    Five weeks

    Format:
    Seminar 

    Platform:
    Canvas + Zoom

    Cost to participant: 
    $300 usd for five weeks