Docupoetics in the Shadow of Surveillance
About the Workshop:
With commonly known forms of western documentary and its history of exploitation, there are potential risk factors that can affect the way a community and/or self tells a story, such as including identifying information that endangers other community members, exposure of immigration status, unintentionally increasing surveillance of a community, and more.
Drawing examples from Philip Metres, Tarfia Faizullah, and Dena Igusti's personal anecdotes of navigating state surveillance in post 9/11 New York City, we will explore docupoetics, and how being able to place archives and oral history in poems allows emotional exploration and distills truths without fully compromising identity risks.
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About the Workshop Leader:
Dena Igusti is an Indonesian Muslim writer born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, 2020), which has been listed as a 2022 Perennial Award Winner, 2020 Harvard Bookstore Staff Pick, and Entropy Mag’s Best Of 2020-2021. They are the Inaugural 2023 NYFA Ryan Hudak Playwright Award Winner. Their work has been featured in BOAAT Press, Peregrine Journal, The Margins, and other publications. Their work has been produced and performed at LA Times, The Brooklyn Museum, The Apollo Theater, Women Deliver, the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit, Players Theatre, The Public, and more. They have been featured in Business Insider, Teen Vogue, American Theatre Magazine, and more. They are a More Art Engaging Artist Fellow, NYSCA Grant Recipient, Asian American Writers’ Workshop Open City Fellow, Baldwin for the Arts Resident, Best of the Net Nominee, and more. They have been commissioned by The Miranda Family Fund. Their play, WHAT YOU ARE TO ME, premieres at HERE Arts for Criminal Queerness Festival June 2025. Their forthcoming collection, Ecdysis: Cacophony of Skins releases with fourteen poems (London) in May 2025.
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Time and Place:
May 27th (Tuesday), 7:00-8:30PM ET
This workshop will be online (link will be sent to the email you provide).
About the Workshop:
With commonly known forms of western documentary and its history of exploitation, there are potential risk factors that can affect the way a community and/or self tells a story, such as including identifying information that endangers other community members, exposure of immigration status, unintentionally increasing surveillance of a community, and more.
Drawing examples from Philip Metres, Tarfia Faizullah, and Dena Igusti's personal anecdotes of navigating state surveillance in post 9/11 New York City, we will explore docupoetics, and how being able to place archives and oral history in poems allows emotional exploration and distills truths without fully compromising identity risks.
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About the Workshop Leader:
Dena Igusti is an Indonesian Muslim writer born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, 2020), which has been listed as a 2022 Perennial Award Winner, 2020 Harvard Bookstore Staff Pick, and Entropy Mag’s Best Of 2020-2021. They are the Inaugural 2023 NYFA Ryan Hudak Playwright Award Winner. Their work has been featured in BOAAT Press, Peregrine Journal, The Margins, and other publications. Their work has been produced and performed at LA Times, The Brooklyn Museum, The Apollo Theater, Women Deliver, the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit, Players Theatre, The Public, and more. They have been featured in Business Insider, Teen Vogue, American Theatre Magazine, and more. They are a More Art Engaging Artist Fellow, NYSCA Grant Recipient, Asian American Writers’ Workshop Open City Fellow, Baldwin for the Arts Resident, Best of the Net Nominee, and more. They have been commissioned by The Miranda Family Fund. Their play, WHAT YOU ARE TO ME, premieres at HERE Arts for Criminal Queerness Festival June 2025. Their forthcoming collection, Ecdysis: Cacophony of Skins releases with fourteen poems (London) in May 2025.
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Time and Place:
May 27th (Tuesday), 7:00-8:30PM ET
This workshop will be online (link will be sent to the email you provide).
About the Workshop:
With commonly known forms of western documentary and its history of exploitation, there are potential risk factors that can affect the way a community and/or self tells a story, such as including identifying information that endangers other community members, exposure of immigration status, unintentionally increasing surveillance of a community, and more.
Drawing examples from Philip Metres, Tarfia Faizullah, and Dena Igusti's personal anecdotes of navigating state surveillance in post 9/11 New York City, we will explore docupoetics, and how being able to place archives and oral history in poems allows emotional exploration and distills truths without fully compromising identity risks.
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About the Workshop Leader:
Dena Igusti is an Indonesian Muslim writer born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, 2020), which has been listed as a 2022 Perennial Award Winner, 2020 Harvard Bookstore Staff Pick, and Entropy Mag’s Best Of 2020-2021. They are the Inaugural 2023 NYFA Ryan Hudak Playwright Award Winner. Their work has been featured in BOAAT Press, Peregrine Journal, The Margins, and other publications. Their work has been produced and performed at LA Times, The Brooklyn Museum, The Apollo Theater, Women Deliver, the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit, Players Theatre, The Public, and more. They have been featured in Business Insider, Teen Vogue, American Theatre Magazine, and more. They are a More Art Engaging Artist Fellow, NYSCA Grant Recipient, Asian American Writers’ Workshop Open City Fellow, Baldwin for the Arts Resident, Best of the Net Nominee, and more. They have been commissioned by The Miranda Family Fund. Their play, WHAT YOU ARE TO ME, premieres at HERE Arts for Criminal Queerness Festival June 2025. Their forthcoming collection, Ecdysis: Cacophony of Skins releases with fourteen poems (London) in May 2025.
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Time and Place:
May 27th (Tuesday), 7:00-8:30PM ET
This workshop will be online (link will be sent to the email you provide).