Put Your Poems Upon the Gears: Poetry and Activism

Joshua Clover, Joyce Lee, Brynn Saito, Stephanie Young

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Poetry’s protest tradition is long and storied, challenging power and injustice by staking a moral claim on society through satire, performance, or lyrical turn of phrase. These four contemporary poets will read from their socially-engaged work and discuss how poetry resists and confronts, refuting once and for all W. H. Auden’s old claim that “poetry makes nothing happen.”