With generous funding from Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, join us for a free generative writing workshop with the inimitable visiting artist, Kush Thompson! She will lead a virtual writing workshop followed by a Q+A session February 27, 6:30-8:00 PM C/T. Visuals and video may be used, so be ready to sit back and fully engage with this dynamic artist.

Registration is required and can be done here.

More about Kush Thompson

Author of A Church Beneath the Bulldozer (2014) and creator of the pink-haired Blk Hottie portraiture series, Kush Thompson is a Chicago-born poet, painter, archivist, educator, and a fellow of Luminarts and Cave Canem. She creates archival art; centering often on girlhood and the mechanics of memory. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015). Kush herself can be found in the VHS bin at any given thrift store somewhere in New Orleans.

Website: kushthompson.com

More about the workshop

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In this workshop, we’ll chisel a rabbit hole into the world within metaphor to discover what transforms when imagery unravels. Inspired by the surrealism of Mahmoud Darwish, Remedios Varo, and Ed, Edd n Eddy, this almost-ekphrastic workshop borrows alchemical imagery, takes it apart, and turns the abstract literal.