The Rocket’s Red Glare: Politics in Art and Poetry @ALOUDla

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Edgar Arceneaux and Douglas Kearney
In conversation with Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Program Director, Poetry Society of America

In an election year driven by worldwide public demonstrations, congressional stagecraft and conflicting narratives, rhetoric, aesthetics and politics are apt to collide. As part of a 2012 national series, poet-performer Douglas Kearney and artist-activist Edgar Arceneaux of the Watts House Project discuss the political impetus and implications of their work.

The Rocket’s Red Glare: Politics in Art and Poetry

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