Proposal Title
Still I Rise: A Reply to American Violence in the Writings of Contemporary Black Women Poets
Location
Room 2-150 (Amphitheater)
Start Date
9-11-2018 10:45 AM
End Date
9-11-2018 11:45 AM
Presentation Type
Workshop
Abstract
This workshop focuses on the work of selected Black women poets writing resistance in the late 20th and 21st centuries. We will examine how these writers have addressed violence against black bodies, racism and war, the politics of power, black subjectivity, as well as black joy and love as antidotal to matrices of repression. Their poems – in their formal strategies and fields of focus – serve as models for the writing we will engage in ourselves. This workshop is meant as a generative one – one meant to provoke, challenge, and inspire us into discussions and ultimately poems or poem drafts. No experience in poetry writing necessary. Open to all.
Still I Rise: A Reply to American Violence in the Writings of Contemporary Black Women Poets
Room 2-150 (Amphitheater)
This workshop focuses on the work of selected Black women poets writing resistance in the late 20th and 21st centuries. We will examine how these writers have addressed violence against black bodies, racism and war, the politics of power, black subjectivity, as well as black joy and love as antidotal to matrices of repression. Their poems – in their formal strategies and fields of focus – serve as models for the writing we will engage in ourselves. This workshop is meant as a generative one – one meant to provoke, challenge, and inspire us into discussions and ultimately poems or poem drafts. No experience in poetry writing necessary. Open to all.
