"We clamor for the right to opacity for everyone."
- Édouard Glissant, "For Opacity" (tr. Betsy Wing)
A symposium that
continues the collective work of Poetics of Healing and takes Eleni
Stecopoulos's Visceral Poetics (ON Contemporary Practice,
2016) as a point of departure for new writing & dialogue to treat these times. Readings
& performances may engage opacity & transparency; anti-imperial
& anti-colonial poetics; "the chronic syndrome of the West";
healing & somatic practices; mother tongues & mongrel
tongues; otherness & immigrant poetics; the writing of Antonin
Artaud, Édouard Glissant & others.
Hosted by: Stecopoulos
& Thom Donovan, co-editor of ON Contemporary Practice for The Poetry Project.
Appearances by: Cornelia Barber, Charles Bernstein,
Melissa Buzzeo, Declan Gould, Jeanne Heuving, Madhu Kaza, Robert Kocik,
Liz Latty, Andrew Levy, Sean Labrador y Manzano, EJ McAdams, Marissa
Perel, Kristin Prevallet, George Quasha & Emji Spero.
Statements or video by: Will Alexander, Brenda Iijima, Mg
Roberts & TBA.
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