Writing Inside the Body

Susan Sensemann will lead a 2 hour writing workshop at A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street, Northampton in conjunction with a five-person exhibition “Physiotasmagorical” which investigates corporeal secrets that reside at the juncture of the clinical and the imaginary in fantastic conjurings of our internal selves. We will begin with a discussion of the “felt sense” as a way to approach a brief and longer writing/reading in response to the art. Participants should bring writing materials. This craft workshop is free and will take place on Wednesday, March 27 from 6:00-8:00pm. No registration necessary.

Susan Sensemann is an artist and writer who recently moved from Chicago to Easthampton. She is professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she taught contemporary theory and painting. She has exhibited her work nationally and in galleries in Italy, Germany, Iceland, and China among others. Two short stories have been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review. “Encountering History” was nominated for a PEN Award for New Writers. Her collaborative projects and installations incorporate her poetry. Her poetry and art are in the recent issues of Meat for Tea and Silkworm.