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poetree2014-02-17 11:09 pm
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Intro to Community Week: Exploring the Body Politic
The way we see the world is shaped in part by the way we see the world: it's easier to notice and remember what you have ready words (and ready stories) for. As language less welded to convention, language that innovates and rewords, language that unsettles at times as much as connects — poetry speaks to the heart of politics: who constitutes 'we'; what's worthy of notice; how should people and institutions relate to each other.
This week we communal we offer each other a feast of poets and poetry in dialogue with bodies politic.
Tuesday:jjhunter: Taxonomists 'R Us: Phylogeny of Political Metaphor
Wednesday:leek: Carolyn Forche
Thursday:raze: Politics, Poetry, and Pride: Langston Hughes & the Harlem Renaissance
Friday:anonymous_sibyl: Re-crafting Competing Narratives: Finding The Role of the Poet in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Saturday:kaberett: Powerful words: the personal is political
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Last edited 2/22/14 by jjhunter
This week we communal we offer each other a feast of poets and poetry in dialogue with bodies politic.
Tuesday:
jjhunter: Taxonomists 'R Us: Phylogeny of Political MetaphorWednesday:
leek: Carolyn ForcheThursday:
raze: Politics, Poetry, and Pride: Langston Hughes & the Harlem RenaissanceFriday:
anonymous_sibyl: Re-crafting Competing Narratives: Finding The Role of the Poet in the Palestinian-Israeli ConflictSaturday:
kaberett: Powerful words: the personal is political---
Last edited 2/22/14 by jjhunter