Collective Poetry Workshops
Virtually, 2022/8, 2022/10, 2022/11, 2022/12
Newark, NJ, 2022/11
Brooklyn, NY, 2022/12
Virtually, 2023/4, 2023/7, 2023/8
Brooklyn, NY, 2023/5
Virtually, 2024/3, 2024/8
CAO’s online and in-person collective poetry-writing workshops have engaged over 300 community members of the Sinophone diaspora transnationally. We carefully design guiding questions on queer/feminist kinship, food, and memory, to which each participant start on one page and turn to the next page(s) to continue what other people have written. These queer feminist poetics are intimate conversations with each other, holding space for joy, grief, and otherwise inexplicable feelings in diaspora.
As of Oct 2024, we have hosted 15 collective writing workshops virtually and in person, in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, California, and more.
You may read a few poems and their translations at The Common: China Folio, Apogee Literary Journal issue 19, Tupelo Quarterly issue 32, Massachusetts Review Special issue: Revisiting WOMAN, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
As of Oct 2024, we have hosted 15 collective writing workshops virtually and in person, in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, California, and more.
You may read a few poems and their translations at The Common: China Folio, Apogee Literary Journal issue 19, Tupelo Quarterly issue 32, Massachusetts Review Special issue: Revisiting WOMAN, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
The next two pieces were collectively made by participants in “Writing Your Future Self” workshop series in collaboration with artist Yidan Zeng in 2024. 
