Writing Race & Belonging: A Live Monument
As part of Writing On It All, Kundiman is sponsoring a creative enactment of tolerance and belonging for poets of color. In this live "monument," one group of poets will write a collaborative poem centering on their experience of racism which will alternate between an exquisite corpse (poets writing in succession) and an exploded poem (poets writing at the same time) on a projected new media space. A second group of poets will select portions of the projected new media poem to act as first lines for their own pieces which will be centered on their and their families' experience of making a home in America. This second group of poets will write their poems in paint on wall paper that has been hung around the perimeter of the space. What we aim to create is the sensation that acts of violence and racism figured through new media are absorbed through the more physicalized poems of home and belonging that are painted throughout the space. Throughout this staged writing, there will be readings from the books of Asian American poets and writers.
For more information, go here: http://writingonitall.com/
