Spring Resident
Anthony Procopio-Ross
Residing in Kansas City, MO, Anthony Procopio-Ross stewards youth at a local nonprofit and teaches night classes. His poems, photos, and collages appear in Birdcoat Quarterly, Kansas City Review, Bear Review, MemeZine Lit, Inflectionist Review, Wild Roof Journal, Outskirts Lit, McNeese Review, Laurel Review, and others. He can often be found photographing and writing about fellow residents and visitors of Charlotte Street Foundation. He’s been awarded residencies and grants from organizations including ArtsKC, Tallgrass, Art Farm Nebraska, and MU Extension. Across his practice, he considers what happens off to the side of dominant discourses, interfacing with the people, traditions, and writing that quietly shape our shared, everyday life.
The Fruiting Body of: Poetics of Decomposition & Entanglement. From being heralded as world-destroying parasites to lauded as radical metaphors for a more connected way of living, fungi have spread their mycelial hyphae deep into the substrate of the 21st-century imagination. In this two-day workshop, we’ll sift through the “resonant sources” tucked away in our junk drawers, note-taking apps, internet archives, local news, and public spaces, drawing on fungi’s capacity to remediate, filter, entangle, and decompose.
As Anna Tsing notes in “Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species,” wandering and the love of mushrooms engender one another. The writing in this workshop will similarly embrace an openness to keeping our eyes attuned for, and perhaps stumbling into, what delights us in time-earned stockpiles of latent text. We’ll use found texts and images to “forest” various poetic forms, along with their subterranean, enantiodromiac counterparts: our attention to them.
The workshop will be held May 16 & 17: 9:30-11:30 PM MST / 10:30-12:30 PM CST via Zoom. Register now!
Summer 2025 Resident
Jisoo Hope Yoon
Hope is a narrative writer at LINE Games who also writes and translates fiction and theater. She has taught a seminar about video games and political agency, spoken on panels about working across mediums, and hosts interdisciplinary gatherings about human attention in New York City. She is a multigenre reader at Split Lip Press and a proud alum of Soho Rep’s Writer-Director Lab and the BIPOC Critics Lab at the Public Theater.
Clickable Poems: Interactive Techniques for Literary Writer.
The workshop will be held June 27 & 28 11AM-1PM MST / 12-2 PM CST via Zoom. Register now!