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This session will chart a geography of political undergrounds as a location of language and possibility. Departing from a close reading of Chapter 16 from Assata Shakur's autobiography which describes her journey underground, we will consider ways of being and moving that require being unseen — together we will write, remember, and notice some paths hidden in plain view. Is a political underground possible in our age of digital surveillance and location-sharing? Is it desirable? Could you find your way to it? What and who would meet you there?

Learning

Deep Study Session

Poetics/Poetry on Myth, Caste, Race, Supremacy, and Emancipatory Practices; Deep Study Session with Prageeta Sharma and Pramila Venkateswaran

Fri, December 12, 2025, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Deep Study Session

The Poetry Project

"maybe you can go and hook up with the people"; Deep Study Session with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Learning

Poetics/Poetry on Myth, Caste, Race, Supremacy, and Emancipatory Practices; Deep Study Session with Prageeta Sharma and Pramila Venkateswaran

Group as Form; Deep Study Session with Groups Group

The Nero Complex, or, For a Psychopathology of Settler-Colonialism: A Dis/Course Workshop with Alberto Toscano

an accumulation: returning to the unwritten and the unsaid; 5-Session Workshop with Asiya Wadud

Topophilia; 5-Session Workshop with Lena Pervez Afridi

Toward a Lyric Commons; 5-Session Reading Group with Wendy Lotterman

From Poem to Stage: a 5-session Workshop with Rachelle Rahmé

Ekphrasis as Widening the Flashpoint; 5-Session Workshop with Andrea Abi-Karam

How to Build a Grass Hut; 5-Session Workshop with Latif Askia Ba

"maybe you can go and hook up with the people"; Deep Study Session with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Writing Art; 5-Session Workshop with Drew Zeiba

Between Transparency and Opacity; 5-Session Translation Workshop with Maru Pabón and Yasmine Seale