Dreaming toward Transformation: A Generative Workshop on the Power of Dreams and the Subconscious

Sunday, September 8, 2024. 4:00-5:30 pm EST, on Zoom.

facilitated by Stephanie Niu

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What can a dream do? In a space unbounded by the logic of the waking world, how might dreams push us to imagine reality differently and even transform it? In this 90-minute generative workshop, we will dive into the imagery and language of dreams, prompted by selected work from Dana Levin and Brendan Constantine, and discuss the role of dreams in transforming and reimagining the world with all its beauty and violences. Participants will collectively brainstorm a list of transformative techniques to use in their own writing, respond to generative prompts, and emerge with a deeper consideration of the dream’s sister question: what can a poem do?

Sliding scale $15-50*

Stephanie Niu is a poet and writer from Marietta, Georgia. Her poem "Exploding Whale Day" appeared in No, Dear Issue 28 (Water). Her first full-length poetry collection, I Would Define the Sun, won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize and is forthcoming in February 2025. She is the author of the chapbooks Survived By (Host Publications, 2024), and She Has Dreamt Again of Water (Diode Editions, 2022). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Literary Hub, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for research on Christmas Island’s labor history, through which she led youth poetry workshops and published the zine Our Island, Our Future. She lives in Brooklyn.