Death Poetics
w/ Rae Diamond & Corinne Manning

Four Saturdays in November over Zoom from 1-3PM PST (November 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd)
(All sessions will be recorded and recordings shared with registrants for a limited time afterwards.)

Caves. Spagyrics. Seeing in the dark. In this multi-genre course, Corinne and Rae invite you to turn the universal inevitable into a poetics of deep listening, composting, and rebirth. This Scorpio time within a snake year has a creepy-crawly, shadowy—and yet regenerative—energy that we will work with. Utilizing element- and earth-based writing practices aligned with the season, students will explore safe containers in which to confront grief, fear, and decay; and fertile ground in which to plant seeds of transformation and renewal in their writing projects and practice.

Pricing: The following payment model is inspired by and borrowed from the payment model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class, We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks.

This workshop offers a sliding scale based on your relative financial standing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your financial wealth (retirement/savings/investments); your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and the world; are you expecting an inheritance); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$300 Partner

$250 Supporter (Note: This amount reflects the “real” value of this course.)

$200 Companion

$125 Friend

Scholarships are also available for anyone needing further financial assistance. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info, or if you are feeling challenged in any way by the financial requirements of participation.

Rae Diamond is a neurodivergent interdisciplinary artist, educator, and nature advocate who inhales life and exhales language, music, and other creations. They are the author and artist of floating bones (First Matter Press), the author of The Cantigee Oracle (North Atlantic Books), and will continue to develop their next book as an artist in residence at Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska in 2026. Rae has worked as an astrologer for over two decades, is the founder of the Long Tone Choir, a student and teacher of Qigong, and a lover of both the transcendent and the absurd.

Corinne Manning is an educator with 16 years of experience as a teaching artist within the community through Writers in the Schools in Seattle, Hugo House, and through their own in-person and online offerings. Their collection of short stories, We Had No Rules, came out from Arsenal Pulp Press in 2020. Their critical work has been published widely including The New York Times. They are at work on a memoir about desire and longing that can be read on their substack Desire as Craft. Corinne utilizes anti-oppressive teaching models and organizes all their classes with the goal that participants become their own best teachers.