Language and Thinking (L&T) Program, Institute for Writing and Thinking, and Center for Civic Engagement Present
(Soma)tic Rituals & The Strength Of Poetry When The World Taxes Your Soul
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 101
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
A Poetics Workshop Led by CAConrad
What role does writing, particularly poetry, play in our current moment of political precarity, opacity, and urgency?How might poetic practices, embodied and enacted with others, reimagine what counts as present day activism, resistance, solidarity, and creativity?
How can poetry and poetics help to counter a public sphere riven by hyper-partisanship, “alternative facts,” nationalist bellicosity, planetary crises, and the deep unraveling of civic attachments?
Please join us for a workshop with poet CAConrad, which will focus on using (soma)tic practices in order to generatively investigate the role writing can play in our contemporary political reality. We will also discuss how poetry and ritual can help us to end our alienation from our planet and from one another.
CAConrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. The author of 9 books of poetry and essays, the latest is titled While Standing In Line For Death and is forthcoming from Wave Books (September 2017). He is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Banff, RADAR, Flying Object and Ucross. For his books, essays, and details on the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films 2016), please visit http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
For more information, call 845-758-7141, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 101