2018 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

You Are Here: Writing From Your Place in History  "The Machine is the Other; each glimpse of the human face, rising out of it, is the counter."   -Nomi Stone  

Three poets who write about America's ongoing colonialism and systemic brutality (both at home and abroad) will read their work and discuss the difficulties of disentangling themselves from their history, the prescribed parameters and limitations of inheritance, in order to disturb the power of empire. How does one challenge the constructs of whiteness, without appropriating other voices, or denying privilege? How does one write about violence, without reenacting it? How do we push ourselves past the fixed boundaries of our own imaginations?