Tag: Politics

Talking About What We Don’t Talk About: Roundtable with Eunsong Kim, Amy King, Lucas de Lima, Hoa Nguyen, Héctor Ramírez, Metta Sáma, Nikki Wallschlaeger

Roundtable @ Poetry Foundation  EXCERPTS: “The quiet confidences, to me, are indicative of a larger understanding at play in the poetry world, and Lehman is only one example of such ‘powerhouses’ who seem to take advantage of that power boldly and blatantly.” ~~ “Whisper campaigns, hit jobs, passive aggressive and aggressive treatments–carried out by poets…

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OCCUPY WALL STREET – IS IT REALLY HAPPENING?

** AND JUST WHAT IS IT? MEDIA BLACKOUT? YOU TELL ME. **  Click the titles for info: * “The problem in a nutshell is this: Inequality in this country … (click to continue)” * Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1#ixzz1arm8aHPw Join the Poetry@WallStreet on Facebook – * Click here – TO PARTICIPATE IN FRIDAY’S READING! * Poets Occupy Wall…

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The What Else of Queer Poetry

WHETTING EXCERPTS: …In queer poetry, desire blooms, and yes, I may just marry my dog— …Beyond that debate, we remain, in all our queerness, anomalies writing aloud the unimagined territories that language spearheads and explores.  They may fear adventure in my world, but I inhabit theirs in multiple ways—and am them. …Queer poets especially locate…

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Into the Iron-Clad Shadows…

Early Obama’s Efforts to Get People Involved — Is He Practicing What He Preached? I heard on NPR yesterday some Brit pundit proclaiming that President Obama’s recent TV appearances are mostly for naught. Apparently, pundits think the short-term “gains” — as they weigh them — are not worth the long-term hassles he will surely reap…

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Race, Poetry, & Politics

How To Conjure the Power of Lynching! ~~~~ Baby Mama? Terrorist Bump? Too Black! ~~~~ Audio below from the Race and Poetry panel — from the PennSound blog: Recorded September 21, 2008 as part of this year’s BOOG City Festival, “Race and Poetry: Integrating the Experimental” is a panel discussion organized and moderated by Amy…

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3 poems by Jaswinder Bolina, Ana Bozicevic’s (aka my) Voicemail Anthem and from Where Absence Is by Nathalie Stephens aka Nathanaël are on PoetryPolitic today in the form of three poemfilms by the great magus Joshua Marie Wilkinson of Rabbit Light Movies. As per the Wikipedia, the Magi, magicians and interpreters of dreams (singular Magus,…

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