Digital Death Dive: Poetry Workshop with Jayson Keery

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 1:20pm
Theater Studios, Room 114, 275 Washington Terrace, Middletown

FREE! Please RSVP to kbrewerball@wesleyan.edu

"Digital Death Dive" is a dip into finding poetic inspiration via digital technology. In this workshop, participants will discuss the ethics and theories of technology as a means of artistic production, weaving in the history of techno music, then launch into different means of unlocking a poetic flow through the use of personal technology. Please be prepared to use a smartphone and bring a laptop. Workshop is from 1:20pm to 4:10pm.

Jayson Keery is based in Western Massachusetts, where they completed their MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They are the author of The Choice is Real (Metatron Press, 2023) and the chapbook Astroturf (o•blēk editions, 2022). They have been anthologized in Mundus Press’s Nocturnal Properties, Nightboat Books’ We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and Pilot Press London’s A Queer Anthology of Rage. They received the 2022 Metatron Press Prize for Rising Authors, selected by Fariha Róisín, and the 2021 Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship, selected by Wendy Xu.

Presented by the Theater Department and co-sponsored by the English Department, Theater Department, and Dean’s Office.