The Poetries and Communities Project is curated by Senior Researcher Chris Tanasescu (MARGENTO) at University of Ottawa and is affiliated to the Friday Circle directed by Poet Professor Seymour Mayne in the University of Ottawa’s Creative Writing Program.
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Does the community around us need poetry or poets? Community—singular, as in local, or global as well—or rather plural, as we are part of or in touch with so many matrices crossing all kinds of social, linguistic, cultural, and geographical divides? But going back to the first question, are poetry and poets one and the same thing in that respect—or, in other words, is the poets’ poetry the poetry that communities around them ‘consume’, identify with, enjoy or employ for (any of) the meanwhile marginalized and ‘secularized’ versions of the functions that poetry ‘normally’ had in ‘traditional’/‘pre-contact’/pre-(post)modern communities?
In a 1996 article significantly titled “Why American Poetry Is Not American Literature,” Joseph Harrington argued that...
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Among the contributors: JEROME ROTHENBERG, DAVID ANTIN, bill bissett, DAVID BAKER, G.C. WALDREP, DAPHNE MARLATT, BETSY WARLAND, JOAN HOULIHAN, PAGE HILL STARZINGER, GARY THOMAS MORSE, SUSAN RICH, NORMA DUNNING, and many more...
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