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Penn Lightbulb Café - Songs of Dissent: Poetry and Antiracist Solidarity

May
20
2021

Penn Lightbulb Café - Songs of Dissent: Poetry and Antiracist Solidarity

Penn Lightbulb Café
Thursday, May 20 2021 - 12:00pm
Event Speaker
Josephine Park
Herman Beavers


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Poetry is personal and public, political and social. Talking about American poetry—from radical Modernism and the activist-led Black Arts Movement to contemporary poets who respond to war, immigration, racism, and navigating complex identities—requires a discussion of political and ideological movements.

In this Lightbulb Café event, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Studies Program, is in conversation with Herman Beavers, Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies, about teaching poetry and finding antiracist solidarity in poetic movements of the past and present.

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