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Sex, Death, Laughter, Disease: Writing and the Body

Center for Sex and Culture
San Francisco, CA

Being human, our bodies mediate our experience. In this six-week course, we will look at the ways embodied experience is communicated and crafted in poetry, fiction, and memoir. We will read short pieces in which writers have taken the body as their subject: its abilities, its pleasures, its failures and its humiliations. We'll do writing exercises that expand our physical vocabulary, sharpen our skills of observation, and take a closer look at the daily difficulties and joys of the corporeal. Finally, we'll work on critique and revision in weekly workshops that strengthen our practice as writers and as readers. Classes will meet six Tuesday evenings from 7:30 to 9:00. Snacks will be provided. The course will be limited to fifteen students. Total cost, including materials, will be $325. Limited scholarships are available. If you'd like to join the class, please send a brief (5 pages or less) writing sample to o5k_@hotmail.com. After corresponding with the teacher, you'll be given a password enabling you to pay for the class (ticket).

About the teacher: Lorelei Lee is an MFA candidate and an adjunct professor in creative writing at New York University. Her poems, essays, and short stories have been published in $pread Magazine, Transfer Magazine, Denver Quarterly, and in the anthologies Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life and Love and Off the Set: Porn Stars and Their Partners. Along with Stephen Elliot, she is the cowriter of the film Cherry, now in preproduction. She has toured nationally with the Sex Workers' Art Show and is a Literary Death Match champion.

Minimum Age: 18

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: Yes!

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