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Wednesdays, 4 weeks
Oct 30
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Nov 20
6:30 - 8:30 PM CT
INSTRUCTOR:
Leah Nieboer
LOCATION:
Online via Zoom
$
196
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$
230
FOR non-MEMBERS
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We often talk about dreams as a phenomenon that occurs in our private world of sleep, but dreams may also leak across the border of sleep into our waking lives, may be shared and expanded in collaboration with others, or may already be embedded inside reality.

In this class, we’ll consider the possibilities offered by dreams and dream-states by diving into a variety of dream texts—including our own. We’ll keep dream journals, develop our own dream lexicons, and practice dreaming together. We’ll use meditative, Deep Listening practices to better evoke dream states, play with them, and move them into our living and writing space, with the goal of generating new kinds of writing and thinking in our practice. Because there are many ways to work with dreams, we need not limit ourselves to any single genre or media of exploration.

As we work with our own dreaming-writing, we’ll also read, or view, a number of oneiric texts by artists and authors such as Cesar Aira, Banana Yoshimoto, CD Wright, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chris Marker, Jackie Wang, or others. We will not tax ourselves to define what a dream “is,” but rather what possibilities dreaming offers our lives and writing—including new topographies, logics, sounds, gestures, and modes of composition. In this class, you can expect creative experiments, collaboration, and play in our shared dreaming space. Overall, we’ll open up our writing practice to new rituals, deep intuitions, and previously undreamed-of possibilities.

In-Class Writing Lift: Medium

Homework: Required

Workshopping Drafts: Optional

Leah Nieboer is a poet, Deep Listener, graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and PhD Candidate in English at the University of Denver. Her debut book, SOFT APOCALYPSE, the winner of the 2021 Georgia Poetry Prize (UGA Press, 2023), was named a best debut collection of 2023 by Poets & Writers Magazine, and her work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Oversound, Poetry Daily, HERE, and elsewhere. A former resident of Nashville, she is the winner of the 2022 Mountain West Writers’ Contest in Poetry and the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Denver, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts at Mt. San Angelo and the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany. She currently lives in Denver, where she co-hosts The Ritter, a new literary and cultural podcast. Find more online at www.leahnieboer.com or via social media (@mznieboer).

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