PSNY Virtual Workshop: Flash Poetic Essays

With poet Kimberly Alidio!

How do we experience time when we open up to the language of the moment of composition? What did Joanne Kyger mean when she advised poets to not revise that language? What did Gertrude Stein mean by "composition?" What does Renee Gladman mean by “poetic time,” and how do we experience it in the sentence? How do we write timeless poetry that belongs to the contemporary moment? What does it mean to “essay” when we understand the word “essay” means “ to try”? What is a "poetic idea" or "poetic evidence"? We will get together to make poetic proposals that tap into the collective mind/ spirit reflecting our time together in workshop.

About the Instructor: Kimberly Alidio, a poet, essayist, historian, and teacher, is the author of five poetry collections: Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions, 2025); Teeter (Nightboat Books, 2023), winner of both the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry; why letter ellipses (selva oscura, 2020); : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*, 2020), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award; and after projects the resound (Black Radish, 2016). Essays have appeared in e-flux, Poetry Foundation, American Quarterly, Social Text, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of American History, and the anthology, Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of the Nation and Diaspora (New York University Press, 2016). She has been awarded fellowships, prizes, and artist residencies from the University of Arizona’s MFA Program, Kundiman, Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, the Center for Art and Thought, the University of Illinois’ Asian American Studies Program, and the Spencer Foundation/ National Academy of Education. For more information, please visit kimberlyalidio.com.

* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**