Hi All,
These days are crucial, so please be in class and on time. (Not that Tues and Thurs are not crucial, as they determine what we do on Sat., but…)
Please bring your 15 minute poetry => performative translation of (for 3 people, using elements of Artuad’s Theater of Cruelty); bring your Thalia Field translations; and please bring your Anthologies along with your thoughts on the short readings assigned.
We’ll do a lot of small group work, followed by some casual play/presentation work at end. This is our chance to build small, finished pieces for our portfolios (in addition to your individual writings), but it’s also a crucial chance for you to work directly with different collaborators–this will help you get a feel for who you might want to work with, even what sort of collaborative project you want to do for weeks 5-10.
Solidarity,
David
ps: check out the stuff below! Pete and friends (some are your classmates) have helped build some incredibly important panels for the Latin American Solidarity Conference below, and I’m sure the other events are very worth while, so…! I venture to say that there is no way poetry can avoid (or should avoid) somehow dealing with/confronting globalization and neoliberalism. Among newer world countries, many Latin American countries have some of the oldest and most opportunistic/colonial trade agreements with the U.S. government, and yet these are also countries (Venezuela and Colombia, for instance) where resistance by grassroots organizations has also been the most visible and successful in the past couple decades. Find out more.