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Truth Sayers: Poetry Collectives as a Twenty-First-Century Political Act

Virtual
Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00 am to 10:00 am

 

June Jordan said, “To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.” The Write On Poetry Babes is a collective of womxn whose truth telling has created protest initiatives and projects that support BIPOC womxn and LGBTQ folks. The collective holds space for each other and the poetry community. This panel will discuss how our experiences can help other communities empower themselves and effect intersectional change.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_Outline_2022_Truth_Sayers.pdf
Supplemental Document 1: AWP_2022_Truth_Sayers_POEMS.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Ysabel Y. Gonzalez received her BA from Rutgers University and an MFA in poetry from Drew University. She works as the assistant director for the Poetry Program at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. She is a CantoMundo fellow and author of Wild Invocations.

Marina Carreira (she/her/hers) is a queer Luso American poet artist from Newark, New Jersey. She is the author of tanto tanto, forthcoming in 2022, Save the Bathwater, and I Sing to That Bird Knowing It Won’t Sing Back.

Kathleen Kremins (she/her) has an MFA from Goddard College and a D.Litt. from Drew University. She is the author of The Ethics of Reading: The Broken Beauties of Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, and Nawal el Sadaawi and the forthcoming Undressing the World.

Lynne McEniry, poet, is the author of some other wet landscape. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and were awarded second place and honorable mention for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. She teaches at Saint Elizabeth University and is a manuscript consultant for Get Fresh Books.

Tamara Zbrizher is a poet, educator, and workshop leader. Her first book of poems, Tell Me Something Good, was published by Get Fresh Books. She works as a professor of English and writing at Kean University and at Arts By The People, a nonprofit that offers free writing workshops.

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