A PD Prose Feature

"Why African-American innovative poetics?  Mainstream African-American poets—for the purposes of this essay, let’s reductively say that “mainstream” contemporary poetry is that which adheres to a linear narrative and stable speaker, and that “innovative” poetry is that which pushes an anti-linear, anti-narrative, hybridized aesthetic—are also important.  But for African-American poets, this issue of how to write about something—that sticky notion of subject matter—seems particularly fraught, because of course the subject of race itself is particularly fraught."
—Arielle Greenberg  MORE

Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice

NoViolet Bulawayo
  Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012
   Georgetown University
   Washington, D.C.

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