Chris Urquhart presents two writing workshops this spring
Join writer-in-residence Chris Urquhart for one or both writing workshops she will be presenting this spring.
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Poetry Blanked MadLib
Guest Post by Kevin Spenst No matter how quiet, every good poem has a gregarious underside where it kvetches, confers, and canoodles with a great many other poems. Lifting any solid piece of poetry, we’ll hear other poems and it behooves us as writers who hope to have...
Call for Applications for Residencies in 2020
We are now accepting applications for residencies at Historic Joy Kogawa House, the childhood home of Joy Kogawa. We are looking for writers to live and work at Historic Joy Kogawa House for residencies that take place next year, in 2020. Most residencies run for two...
Living in a Garden of Chapbooks by Kevin Spenst
Guest Post By Kevin Spenst Ever since I can recall, I’ve been a maker. Not of anything structurally sound, internally robust, or directly useful to the feeding, clothing, or sheltering of anything or anyone. No, I’ve been obsessed with making ephemera, tiny little...
En Parlant Japonais
When I arrive at the Kogawa House and I press the code to let myself in, words leap out of my mouth to fill the empty house: “Tada ima!” The direct translation of this Japanese expression is: here now. A minimal way of saying: I’m home.