facilitation ❧
PRESENT AND FUTURE: I run an occasional book club on Zoom, mostly focused on collborative and/or polyvocal texts. We’re on pause until January 2026. Then, we’ll meet in-person in Minneapolis, on a strictly seasonal basis (Jan-April), both, or neither.
PAST:
2025
- A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
- The Antiphon - Djuna Barnes
- Pink Waves - Sawako Nakayasu
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Experiments in Joy - Gabrielle Civil
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The Cave - Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer
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Concordance - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Kiki Smith
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Sight - Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino
2024
- Dictee - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- Black Bedouin - Mohammed Zenia and Tenaya Nasser
- Mouth Eats Color - Sawako Nakayasu with Chika Sagawa
- Tone - Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno
- The Waves - Virginia Woolf
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I’ve led occasional workshops for small groups and instititions, online and in-person, often centered on exploring somatic experience, public space, and collaborative writing modalities. Former clients include The Walker Art Center, Field Experience, and Coffee House Press. I prefer non-insitutional contexts for this type of thing.
Photo of workshop for Field Experience taken by Michael J. Spear