Opportunities to work together
Classes & working together 1:1
Thank you to everyone who has purchased or borrowed a copy of We Contain Landscapes! Notes about the book mean so much to me; a highlight has been reading your drafts of the Cradle form.
I’m still reflecting on the whirl of book tour and conversations I’ve been lucky to have about the book (such as this interview on Between the Covers with David Naimon). I’ll share thoughts on debut author life, devotion, and more with you soon. In the meantime, I wanted to share this fundraiser for Nabil S, author of “It Was All Songs: A Letter from Gaza,” as well as drop a note about ways to work together in the coming seasons.
Sarah Aziza, who is collecting the funds, is the author of the recently published book, The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders, which she spoke about on Democracy Now a couple months ago.
Working together:
One-on-one (editing, feedback, generative sessions, etc):
I work with writers 1:1 on their books at any stage of the writing process, as well as smaller packets of poems, individual essays, Masters’ theses, revision and generative strategies, etc. We can dig in with a Zoom session in addition to written feedback, depending on how you work best. Find out more at my website, or get in touch with me directly via email (humienik@gmail.com) about your needs/hopes.
Virtual workshops/drop-in sessions:
Devotion: A Generative Writing Session, Saturday, August 9th 11am-12:30pm CT / 12-1.30pm ET. This is a drop-in workshop, $40-60 sliding scale, via Zoom.
"Devotion is full of arrows." —Joanna Klink
What is devotion? What are you devoted to? What do you want to be devoted to?
This is a generative session in which we explore the question(s) of devotion. Whether you're just hoping to generate new material to work with; seek to devote yourself more fully to your writing/art; are intrigued by the concept of devotion as a catalyst or lens for writing/art-making; and/or you are suspicious of the word—join me!
I invite you to come read, discuss, and try out a generative writing exercise. Though we will be reading a few poems, you can write in any genre during our hour together.
More information here.
Water as Method: Rivers & the Poetic Image, Saturday, October 11th 11am-2pm CT / 12-3pm ET, $90-105, virtually with Poets House.
Rivers mirror the poetic image at its best: at once grounding, inextricable from the sensuous material of life, and transporting. Image is where the senses through which we read the world, the sensuous material of our days, meet the emotional and psychic material. River is at once myth and irrigation, transportation and border—grounding and destabilize questions of time, movement, scale, interiority and collectivity. I return again and again to rivers, real and imagined.
In this single-session, generative in-person workshop we’ll discuss what rivers can teach us about poetic image. We’ll read poems by Mahmoud Darwish, Jenny George, Natasha Trethewey, and Jean Valentine and write our own using generative exercises. Writers of all experience levels are welcome. More information here.
More course offerings TBA.
If you’re looking for additional course offerings from a range of brilliant writers, check out Workshops 4 Gaza.
Testimonials:
“Patrycja read my book with depth and clarity. She encouraged me to lean into my strengths, and she pushed me towards what was not yet on the page with rigor, curiosity, and care. She brings precision and honesty to the editing process– you can trust her to tell you what's working and not working, on the level of individual poems and a manuscript as a whole, and to support you towards the strongest version of your work. Patrycja is a phenomenal editor, who cares deeply about poets and our craft. I highly recommend working with her, your poems will thank you!!”
—Mónica Gomery, author of Might Kindred (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry, and recent winner of the Helena Whitehill Book Award for her forthcoming third collection
“Patrycja's poetry workshops are the perfect mix of intellectual stimulation and body knowledge. She helps me get into my head and subconscious, yes, but more importantly, back out again, with new images and connections to explore.”
—Allie Rigby, Poet
“I can’t imagine my book without Patrycja’s feedback. Her insights, observations, questions, encouragements, and revision suggestions challenged and empowered me to push my poems in the most crucial ways. Generous and wise, with brilliant instincts for both line-level and structural aspects of a manuscript, Patrycja is one of the best consultants I’ve ever known. Worth every cent and then some!”
—Gabrielle Bates, author of Judas Goat
More on my website (and updates there coming soon)
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