Posts Tagged ‘ politics ’

On Poets and Prizes / Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young – ASAP/J

Source: On Poets and Prizes / Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young – ASAP/J

Was It Always Going to Be the Last Men Standing? – The New York Times

Was It Always Going To Be the Last Men Standing? |The New York Times

Sean Bonney | Notes on Baudelaire – BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))

 

 

Lee Miller | Women Firewatchers, London (1940)

“I will get a map of London to see where Hackney is” – Ed Dorn “. . . left the ruins, climbed out from under the white stones” – Amiri Baraka     (((1))) …

Source: Sean Bonney | Notes on Baudelaire – BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))

Interchange – The Unknown Knowns of Cultural Diplomacy – WFHB

Richard Wright (left) and fellow delegates at the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists, Paris, 1956.

For today’s episode producer Bella Bravo spoke with poet Juliana Spahr about her book, Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment. This close study of how state interests have shaped contemporary U.S. literature was published by Harvard University Press in 2018.

In Du Bois’s Telegram, Spahr investigates the relationship between politics and art. Her research focuses on the institutional forces at work during three moments in U.S. literature that sought to defy political orthodoxies through challenging linguistic conventions: first, the avant-garde modernism of the early twentieth century; second, the resistance-movement writing of the 1960s and 1970s; and, finally, in the twenty-first century, the abundance of English-language works integrating languages other than English.

 

Source: Interchange – The Unknown Knowns of Cultural Diplomacy – WFHB

Esther Leslie | Fear Eats the Soul: Walter Benjamin & Baader Meinhof – BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))

Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Angst essen Seele auf (Fear Eats the Soul), 1974

Source: Esther Leslie | Fear Eats the Soul: Walter Benjamin & Baader Meinhof – BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))

The Gospel According to Marianne Williamson – The New York Times

Queens Museum Director Laura Raicovich Resigns Amid Political Differences With Board | artnet News

 

Raicovich’s activism for immigrants and other progressive causes clashed with the museum’s conservative board members.

Source: Queens Museum Director Laura Raicovich Resigns Amid Political Differences With Board | artnet News

Ashley Bennett’s Rousing Speech at the NYC Women’s March

Halsey, whose given name is Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, gave a powerful speech in the form of a poem she wrote recounting abuse that she and other women have faced. “This is the beginning, not the finale,” she told the crowd,” and that’s why we’re here, that’s why we rally.”

Source: Ashley Bennett’s Rousing Speech at the NYC Women’s March

Where We Go From Here: On “Political” Poetry and Marginalization, by Cynthia Cruz | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

 

“But one voice is not enough, nor two, although this is where dialogue begins.” — Cherrie Moraga THE PROBLEMSomething occurred during the days after the Trump election. There was a marked difference between those who were angry and … [Read More]

Source: Where We Go From Here: On “Political” Poetry and Marginalization | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

Hillary Clinton to #BlackLivesMatter in Video, “I Don’t Believe You Change Hearts…” | GOOD.

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Hillary Clinton and #blacklivesmatter