We are excited to bring you our new series “great weather for Workshops” at the amazing Living Room Gallery in New York City. These workshops will be generative workshops that happen on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm, each with a fabulous guest facilitator to take your craft to a new and unexpected place. Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro.
May’s guest facilitator is Puma Perl.
Registration is required. Limited to 25 participants.
Free but donations appreciated.
Coming Home, Baby, A Literary and Metaphysical Journey
In this workshop, we will examine what “home” means to us, starting by building a sample “Where I’m From” poem, and expanding to creating a piece reflecting our “soul homes,” the sanctuaries we hold in our hearts.
What elements of home do we carry wherever go? How does place define us? What does “home” mean if we are nomadic or unhoused? To further inform our responses, we will read work by contemporary poets and throw in some music as well.
As Maya Angelou said, You can't really know where you're going until you know where you have been.
A few more quotes to consider:
I am from the Planet Elegance – Ron Carter
I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home -Bob Dylan
This is what we fought all night to get back to? – Swan, The Warriors
I’m coming home, Baby, I’m coming home – Herbie Mann, Coming Home, Baby
Puma Perl is a poet, writer, and performer and is the author of two chapbooks, Ruby True and Belinda and Her Friends, and three full-length poetry collections, knuckle tattoos, Retrograde (great weather for MEDIA), and Birthdays Before and After (Beyond Baroque Books.) Her band, Puma Perl and Friends, brings spoken word together with rock and roll and has performed together since 2012. She’s received four awards from the New York Press Association in recognition of her journalism and was the recipient of the 2016 Acker Award in the category of writing. In May of 2021, she curated and performed in four shows as part of the HOWL Happening! Artist in Residence program. In 2022, she was honored to read at the Whitney Biennial, New York City. She is currently working on a fifth solo poetry collection to be published by Punk Hostage Press.
Author's photo by Ellen Berman.