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Healing Our Relationship with Water: A Writing Lab with 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin

$50.00

In Natalie Diaz’s poem “The First Water is the Body,” she asks, “Will we remember from where we’ve come? The water. // And once remembered, will we return to that first water, and in doing so return to ourselves, to each other? Do you think the water will forget what we have done, what we continue to do?” Water is primordial, and as we ourselves are mostly water, we carry the primordial with us; we are memory. Because we need water to live, what we do to water, we ultimately do to ourselves. In this generative workshop guided by 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin, we will read watery poems and write from prompts designed to help us reconnect to and heal our relationship with water, with our communal body.

Thursday, December 18, 2025, 12-1:30 PM Central Time
Live online

In Natalie Diaz’s poem “The First Water is the Body,” she asks, “Will we remember from where we’ve come? The water. // And once remembered, will we return to that first water, and in doing so return to ourselves, to each other? Do you think the water will forget what we have done, what we continue to do?” Water is primordial, and as we ourselves are mostly water, we carry the primordial with us; we are memory. Because we need water to live, what we do to water, we ultimately do to ourselves. In this generative workshop guided by 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin, we will read watery poems and write from prompts designed to help us reconnect to and heal our relationship with water, with our communal body.

Thursday, December 18, 2025, 12-1:30 PM Central Time
Live online

This is a live, participatory lab and it will not be recorded. A meeting link will be emailed a few days prior to the lab. Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to the lab and will be charged a $10 cancellation fee. Partial scholarships may be available. Apply here by 11/10/25.

신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, Korea and was raised in the Chicago area. She is a poet, writer, and cultural worker. Shin is the author of the poetry collections Six Tones of Water (Ricochet Editions), The Wet Hex (Coffee House Press, 2022); Unbearable Splendor (Coffee House Press, 2016), winner of the 2016 Minnesota Book Award for poetry and finalist for the 2017 PEN USA Literary Award for Poetry; Rough, and Savage (Coffee House Press, 2012); and Skirt Full of Black (Coffee House Press, 2007), winner of the 2007 Asian American Literary Award for poetry. Her debut memoir Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language is forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press in 2026.