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WRITING RESISTANCE

27 Mar 2017
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Registration required. Enroll here.   APRIL 19, 7-9 PM: Naomi Jackson APRIL 22, 11-1 PM: Joey De Jesus APRIL 22, 2-4 PM: Alexandra Watson, Raluca Albu & Safia Jama MAY 3, 7-9 PM: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan MAY 6, 11-1 PM: Mahogany Browne MAY 6, 2-4 PM: Chinelo Okparanta MAY 17, 7-9 PM: Robert Lopez MAY 20, 11-1 PM: Stacy Parker La Melle MAY 20, 2-4 PM: JP Howard Thanks to the generous funding of the Brooklyn Arts Council, we are able to provide five scholarships per class. Applications are due by April 15th. Applicants will be notified by Monday April 17th if they’ve been selected for their class requests. Apply here.   **All workshops will be held at the James E. Davis Arts Building at 80 Hanson Place. The space is ADA compliant, wheelchair accessible. Interpreter available upon request. Please email editors@apogeejournal.org and let us know how we can make the series more accessible to you.**
Interviews

Under a Scrupulous Light: An Interview with Sueyeun Juliette Lee

20 Mar 2017
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Sueyeun Juliette Lee has produced some of my favorite poetry. Hers is a craft that inspires me to endeavor deeper. She’s a phenomenal poet, whose work I deeply admire and respect, so when she offered to share an excerpt from “Relinquish the Sky” with Apogee Journal for Issue 8, I was ecstatic. Of Lee’s work, Bhanu Kapil says, “ A ‘great disturbance.’ A ‘magnetic delivery.’ Hold your breath in the bathtub: to ‘alter weather patterns.’ To belie: a ‘longing,’ the ‘discrepancy,’ how the light itself accrues a ‘stop-motion’ brilliance in the moment…” Lee’s “Relinquish the Sky” leads with the piece, “Daylight, No Grief”, which begins as a mote of a light permeates across distance from its absolute origin, catalyzing her inquiry. In her piece, Lee approximates origins against lack and the monstering potential of a cultural orphan grief.
Poetry

Poetry by Kenji C. Liu

06 Mar 2017
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Frankenstein + Poem = Frankenpo An invented method through which one or more carefully chosen text bodies are collected, disaggregated, randomized, merged, rearranged, erased, sewn back together, and reanimated with a high voltage jolt.
Announcements

AWP 2017

06 Feb 2017
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As editors and writers who work to center marginalized voices, we at Apogee continually re-examine the role of institutions in facilitating dialogue and ensuring representation. The yearly AWP conference is one such institution, which fosters a dynamic and rich literary community, while at times drawing criticism for alienating marginalized writers.
Interviews

An Interview with Yin Q

31 Jan 2017
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“Home of Desperate Magic,” the first chapter of Yin Q.’s memoir, appears on the pages of Apogee Journal Issue 08. In it, Q. begins her journey into the wounds of childhood and inherited trauma; wounds she will later seek to heal and reclaim through the ritual work of BDSM. Here she speaks with Apogee editor, Cecca Ochoa, about the radical potential of consensual pain, empowering submission, and compassionate dominance. Cecca Ochoa: “Home of Desperate Magic” is an excerpt from your memoir-in-progress, Mercy. What is your memoir about? Yin Q: Pain, magic, and reclamation. “Home of Desperate Magic” introduces the idea of using pain as a way to “break the spell.” In this case a family dealing with abuse and loss. CO: So, how exactly does physical pain heal emotional and/ or psychological pain? YQ: Just as our bodies gain muscle memory through movement–-acquiring skills and agility––our bodies also harbor emotional memory. Acupuncture and massage therapy are respected practices of tapping into the body, sometimes to fix physical ailments, but also to release energy or Chi blockage. Rituals that incorporate physical tension or pressure can tap into the psychophysical story that the body has formed. That story can be retold, reshaped, and...
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