Danez Smith
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Poetry As Political Expression
“The world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.” – Gloria E. Anzaldúa “To imagine a language is to imagine a way of life.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
View playlistThe Language of Sci-Fi
Envisioning a world transformed, science fiction transforms language itself: inventing words, making old words new, or expanding their possibilities. It's unsurprising, then, that poets should make use of scifi images—aliens, cyborgs, dinosaurs, and time machines—to speak, as good science fiction should, to subjects far beyond them.
View playlistThe Day After the Election I Did Not Go Outside
A selection of poems against hate and injustice in the time of Trump, most drawn from online journals that have made a point to publish political poetry in the months since the election. Journals include: Heavy Feather Review; Yes, Poetry; Love's Executive Order; Banango Street; DIAGRAM; Pinwheel; BOAAT; Dryland; Poetry; and The New Inquiry. The playlist draws its title from Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's poem of the same name.
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