Easy Dance of Suggestion and Sail of Inspiration: A Writing "Workship"

Thu, October 15, 2020 11:00 AM - Thu, October 15, 2020 12:00 PM at Online

Please join us via Zoom for this writing "workship," facilitated by Adam Wolfond and Chris Martin of Unrestricted Interest, an organization dedicated to helping neurodivergent learners transform their lives through writing.

Limited space is available; to reserve your spot, please email cpoetry@msu.edu by October 9.

 

About the facilitators:

Boy in lavender print shirt smiling with beige brick building in background   Adam Wolfond is a nonspeaking autistic artist, poet and presenter. He is completing high school and is the co-founder of The A Collective in Toronto where he also works in visual art and poetry. Wolfond is interested in the movement of language (which he refers to as “languaging”) and expression, and how neurotypical language forms delimit neurodiverse expression. His poetry has been featured on poets.org. His chapbooks of poetry, In Way of Music Water Answers Toward Questions Other Than What Is Autism and There is Too Music in My Ears are available via Unrestricted Editions.

 

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Chris Martin’s fourth book of poetry, Things to Do in Hell, is fresh this fall from Coffee House Press, and his first book of essays, May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future is forthcoming from HarperOne. He is the recipient of grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Minnesota Humanities Center. He is the co-founder and executive director of Unrestricted Interest, an organization dedicated to helping neurodivergent learners transform their lives through writing. He lives in Minneapolis, where he also teaches at Hamline University and Carleton College.