Host Intro Post: Ren
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poetreeGreetings! You can call me Ren, and I will be your poetree host this week.
I am a New York transplant to Alabama, living just outside the historical hub of Birmingham. My life involves an overabundance of dogs, birds, fish, and physical/mental health problems. I work with animals by trade and write by passion. I also spend a shameful amount of time hanging out with this thing we call Internet.
I will start by saying that while I appreciate poetry, it is not an area of writing I am effectively analytical in, nor something I excel at producing, myself. I am a prose-writer to the core, currently working on a sprawling fiction series that is essentially a civil rights allegory via the lives of a central cast of preternatural hominids living in a human-dominated society. The series touches on a variety of human and animal rights issues, which should give you some idea of where my passions lie.
So, this week, we're going to be looking at activist poetry. Activists have long used the written word as a manner of promoting causes to a broader audience, and poetry has proven a powerful vessel for driving to the heart of a matter. I will be sharing with you poems authored by passionate activists of all ages, races, creeds, genders, and time periods. These poems will touch on a broad scope of issues, some familiar, some that may be less so. I hope you enjoy what I've selected for you, and will post the first poem tonight.
In the meanwhile, feel free to introduce yourself and tell me a little about causes that are important to YOUR life.
poetree host this week.I am a New York transplant to Alabama, living just outside the historical hub of Birmingham. My life involves an overabundance of dogs, birds, fish, and physical/mental health problems. I work with animals by trade and write by passion. I also spend a shameful amount of time hanging out with this thing we call Internet.
I will start by saying that while I appreciate poetry, it is not an area of writing I am effectively analytical in, nor something I excel at producing, myself. I am a prose-writer to the core, currently working on a sprawling fiction series that is essentially a civil rights allegory via the lives of a central cast of preternatural hominids living in a human-dominated society. The series touches on a variety of human and animal rights issues, which should give you some idea of where my passions lie.
So, this week, we're going to be looking at activist poetry. Activists have long used the written word as a manner of promoting causes to a broader audience, and poetry has proven a powerful vessel for driving to the heart of a matter. I will be sharing with you poems authored by passionate activists of all ages, races, creeds, genders, and time periods. These poems will touch on a broad scope of issues, some familiar, some that may be less so. I hope you enjoy what I've selected for you, and will post the first poem tonight.
In the meanwhile, feel free to introduce yourself and tell me a little about causes that are important to YOUR life.
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Date: 2012-05-28 04:32 pm (UTC)Causes that are important to me are LGBT rights, civil rights, animal rights (particularly animal cruelty prevention), and disability rights.
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Date: 2012-05-28 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-31 02:18 am (UTC)War, politics, and slavery are topics of particular interest to me. I have written a little on those subjects, though hardly enough to do them justice.