On Monday, March 11, Cathy Linh Che will hold a workshop with Bard Annandale students and faculty. She will be introduced by Professor Jenny Xie. 

How is poetry personal? How is it political? In this craft class, we will explore the intersection between the personal & the political, examining how poetry bears witness to history, documents our time, and imagines new futures. We will explore different poetic techniques and will spend some time generating new writing.

Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split (Alice James Books) and co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). She is working on a poetry manuscript, a creative nonfiction manuscript, and a short documentary on her parents’ experiences as refugees who played extras on Apocalypse Now. Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed NY. She works as Executive Director at Kundiman, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing writers and readers of Asian American literature.

Read more about Cathy’s work here.