Abonado asked me about how to make poetry and politics play with each other. My thoughts in this area are very much evolving. Here’s a slice of it:
JH: “I think the art of a poem is being on time, right?
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Buffalo Free Rapid Transit // January Reads // Some New Poems Out
It’s made from love and rage and the shredded trains of an unrealizeable future, angel ligaments, bus rides, friends on bikes, cruel glittering snow, and all the rust and all the sparking haywire power structures of Buffalo.
Karen Brodine on Organizing and Poetry – December’s (attempted) reading
“The poem I write, by itself, will not organize for affirmative action, or abortion. Action, organizing with other people, has to do that. New different poems come out of that organizing experience. I can give a new poem, copied secretly on the office machine, to my fellow workers. Because the images in it come from us, our anger, our resistance, my co-workers care for the poem, and it becomes a part of the gathering force of our solidarity”
JOE HALL 