Knock, Knock! Revisiting Past, Published, Regretted Work
How can we think about revisiting older work that we may have changed our minds about, or grown out of, or for personal or intellectual or ethical reasons regret? How can we address this work thoughtfully and creatively – beyond writing a straightforward rebuttal?
This panel will discuss different approaches to not (just) revising but reconsidering past work. Panelists will share brief stories from their own experience – how age and maturity have changed their beliefs, how writing in different genres and forms can influence not just the approach to but the meaning of a work, how technology may or may not aid memory, and how our feelings can hinder or spur this kind of rethinking. We’ll then offer a series of questions, challenges, and strategies (in the Brian Eno sense) for participants to engage with. Our session will end with time for further questions and conversation.
Queer Troublemaking
Troublemaking is joy, is liberating, celebratory for many queer folks. Troublemaking is about joy and survival and recovery and genre and publishing and gender and academia and the body and and and.
Pride Poetry Night
Featured reader, alongside Alé Cota, at Pride Corpus Christi’s Poetry Night!
Active Bitch Face Productions Present: A Variety Hour
We’re celebrating Pride and the return of Chicago educated Wes Jamison and their new collection Carrion (Red Hen Press). Acts include: cowboy country crooning music by Andrew Sa & Friends, drag transcendence by Lucky Stiff, gutbuster standup by Sonal Aggarwal, original cello composition by Ari Hunter Scott, mixed media story telling by Mel Leverich, laugh so hard you puke standup-poetry performance by Khaya Osborne, pearl clutching cowboy fuck poems by C. Russell Price, and the belle of the ball Wes Jamison reading their critically acclaimed hybrid work.
Second Person: You and Your Reader
2024 People's Literary Festival
We can't expect a captive audience: our readers may want more than lists of actions and adjectives, descriptions of what we see, think, and imagine. Readers may wish to have a role, to be more involved. In this generative workshop, we will experiment with the word "you," with person, voice, and reference to see what new possibilities appear for reader engagement. All levels and abilities welcome.
Exploring Mythologies and Literary Villains
2024 People’s Literary Festival
A multi-genre reading with Paul McCann and Annie Huckabee, moderated by Kent Lenz.
Galley Signing
I’ll be signing galleys with the wonderful Jennifer Brice at the 2024 AWP Bookfair! Booths 619/621/623
Celebrating 30 Years: An Omnibus Reading
Featuring readings by Red Hen’s Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 authors and contributors to The Good Life Review.
Writing the Body is Writing Everything
I will have a literary discussion with Leone Beasely, emma x lirette, and AJ Dolman, moderated by Doc McLemore
Writers Read
Wes will be part of Writers Read at Saints & Sinners Literary Festival 2023 alongside Henry Alley, St Sukie de la Croix, Sheri Reynolds, Miah Jeffra, Jessica Jopp, and Doc McLemore.