About Event: The Writing Center and ISLA hosted an event for LGBTQIA+ History Month, focused on queer poets and poetry. We read together, collaborated on a brief writing exercise, and heard from Baruch writers in an open mic. Students were welcomed to either present a poem of their own or just listen in.
Time and Date:
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
6-7pm on zoom
Highlights:
- We read poems from Emily Dickinson’s “I am Nobody, Who Are You”
- Excerpt from Tommy Pico’s IRL
- Heard audio of: Cameron Awkward-Rich: “Meditations in an Emergency”
- Analyzed poems in breakout rooms, such as:
- Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency
- Danez Smith “The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/92050/the-17-year-old-the-gay-bar
- Donika Kelly, “Dear-”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/147622/dear-
- Renee Gladman, “Two Calamities”: https://granta.com/calamities/
- Charles Theonia, “Truth Game”: https://brooklynrail.org/2021/10/poetry/three-Theonia
- Ariana Brown, “Dear White Girls in My Spanish Class” (video available) : https://www.acentosreview.com/august2019/dear-white-girls-in-my.html#previous-photo
- Francisco X. Alarcón, “Prayer/Oracion”: English— https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53880/prayer-56d2339a65102 Spanish—https://roghaghabriel.blogspot.com/2016/03/francisco-x-alarcon-oracion-paidir.html
- Tarfia Failzullah, “Yr Not Exotic, but Once Ya Wanted to Be” : https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/148373/yr-not-exotic-but-once-ya-wanted-to-be
- Jameson Fitzpatrick, “A Poem for Pulse”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147304/a-poem-for-pulse
- Listened to poems from students and faculty and participants got to learn more about queer poetry and poets.
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