A.C.T.O.R (A Continuing Talk on Race) 12.2.2018- The Importance of Political Poetry
Date and Time
Dec 2, 2018 5:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Dec 2, 2018 5:00 pm
14th & V
The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) open discussion series is hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service. It provides the opportunity for people to come together and speak openly and honestly about issues of race. The intent is that each person walks away from the discussion feeling something: challenged, educated, uncomfortable, enlightened, refreshed, reassured and hopefully inspired and moved to action! Each month there is a new topic for discussion.
This month's topic: The Importance of Political Poetry w/American University Professor Sarah Trembath
Poetry and Art created by People of Color are inherently political. It makes visible the very miracle that a people so traumatized still muster a voice, still bust a move, and still sing out! It rails out, it calls out, it screams out against the system that has created that trauma. We will discuss the political act of having the audacity to make art in trying times and why it has been integral in every movement towards freedom.
SARAH TREMBATH is a poet, academic researcher, and creative nonfiction writer. She has just finished her first book of poetry and prose, This Past Was Waiting for Me. It is due out in December 2018. She graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia and from Howard University in Washington, DC, where she received her master of arts in African American Literature. She was a 2008 creative writing fellow at Hambidge Center for the Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and is currently professorial lecturer in the Writing Studies Program at American University in DC. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Everyday Feminism, Azure literary journal, the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Quarterly, DCist, and Sally Hemings Dreamszine as well as the Grace in Darkness anthology of DC metro-area women writers. Her personal, long-term passion project is a teacher education resource that is unfolding at Sankofalove.org.
Free and open to all.Â
A.C.T.O.R. is held on the first Sunday of every month at Busboys and Poets 14th & V from 5:00 PM-7:00 pm.
