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 
  • Experiments in Joy - Gabrielle Civil 
  • The Cave - Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer
  • Concordance - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Kiki Smith 
  • 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