The New Roads School in Santa Monica hosts a poetry reading tomorrow night (March 5) to remember the victims of the 2007 Al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing in Baghdad. On March 5…
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Alison Knowles Reads from ‘House of Dust’ at White House
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed a number of poets, spoken-word artists and musicians to Washington, D.C., last month for An Evening of Poetry at the White…
Continue reading »Author Chris Abani Lectures on Art as Witness Tonight at CalArts
Poet-author Chris Abani visits CalArts tonight for a lecture on Art as Witness, the first installment of CalArts’ new Art, Justice & Global Aesthetics: The Equity and Diversity Lecture Series….
Continue reading »Bloomberg’s 9/11 Speech Quotes Poem by CalArts Faculty Matthew Shenoda
Saturday marked the ninth anniversary of the September 11th attacks on America, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg concluded his address at Ground Zero with two lines of poetry: Ingenuity…
Continue reading »From the Archives: Borborigmi
Borborigmi is a collection of poetry and writing published by the CalArts School of Critical Studies in 1970. In the unpretentious DIY spirit of the times, it was photocopied on…
Continue reading »Poet Douglas Kearney Reads from The Black Automaton in LA this Weekend
[Click on the poem above to read Douglas Kearney's 'The Black Automaton in Tag: Refugee.'] Douglas Kearney, a faculty member of CalArts’ School of Critical Studies, is one of those…
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