[Brooklyn]

The Politics of Poetry: Kirill Medvedev & Simone White
May 8, 2019, 7:30 pm
at Old American Can Factory

PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in collaboration with UDP, and with support from the Poetry Foundation, presents:

The Politics of Poetry: Dissenting Poetics, where poets will share excerpts of their work then discuss the historical and ongoing duties of the political poet—and the privilege, power, and pitfalls of channeling political dissent through written art.

 

Poets reading include:

Kirill Medvedev (Russia)

Valzhyna Mort (Belarus/U.S.)

Marianna Kiyanovska (Ukraine)

Simone White (U.S.)