From Rage to Page: The Role of Anger in Poetry of Witness
Sat, Apr 05
|Virtual on Zoom
A workshop to channel your fury into powerful poetry! We will explore the evolution of poetry of witness and the response poem. Together, we'll embrace righteous indignation and write against the forces of oppression. This is not fine—let’s whine, resist, and create!
Time & Location
Apr 05, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Virtual on Zoom
About the Event
In an era defined by turmoil, poetry of witness is newly defined by resistance. Although anger is culturally maligned as immature, reactionary, hysterical, and easily dismissed by the structures that be, what connects us to seemingly insurmountable forces of oppression is our fury in the face of indignity.
In this workshop, participants will work in the lineage of poetry of witness, considering the evolution and contemporary iteration of the response poem. Together, we will work with, not through, righteous indignation at the state of the world. This is not fine. Let’s whine about it.
RAENA SHIRALI is the author of two collections of poetry. Her first book, GILT, was released by YesYes Books in 2017 and won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Published by Black Lawrence Press in October 2022, her second book, summonings, won the 2021 Hudson Prize and was shortlisted for the 2022…
Tickets
From Rage to Page
$35.00+$0.88 service fee
Total
$0.00