charles theonia



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UPCOMING AND PAST WORKSHOPS:



Carrier Snail Theory


a 4-week generative writing workshop at Poets House

Turning Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction inside out, we will live a month in the life of the carrier snail—which attaches foreign objects to its shell as it grows—with the intention of producing a long poem. Considering methods of accumulation, seriality, emptying our pockets, and exceeding our containers, we’ll read and write from a pool of our own words and the works of others, which may include Bernadette Mayer, Dionne Brand, Tan Lin, Yuji Agematsu, and Jack Whitten.

Registration open now



The Collectors



a 1-day workshop at the Poetry Society of New York

Arranged in a cabinet of curiosities or in piles of “equivocal objects introduced as bric-a-brac” (George Eliot), a collection “takes out a little bit more reality from the world than it puts back in” (Tan Lin).

This generative workshop will be an open space of accumulation. Together, we dilettantes will dip into (and contribute to) a pool of works by artist and writer Joe Brainard and singer and composer Julius Eastman.


"You Have to Be Willing to Totally Fail": Collaborative Methods



a 1-day zine-making workshop at BOMB Magazine + Hampshire College

This visual art and creative writing workshop considers queer collaborative projects from pairs and collectives. How can we mutually apply the methods of collective organizing and collaborative art? How can we lovingly collaborate across difference? How can we find the inner and outer resources necessary to take risks alongside our collaborators, especially when they’re our idols, friends, lovers (or, best of all, all three)?

Co-taught with Solomon Brager