About This Episode
Is poetry inevitably political? Can language provoke peace? Spearheaded by Anne Waldman, a founder and current Director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute (www.naropa.edu/academics/graduate/writingpoetics/index.cfm), and hosted by Bob Holman, Club founder and proprietor, the Bowery Poetry Club (www.bowerypoetry.com/ ) presents an exploration of poetry as satyagraha or “truth force,” punctuated by poems from each participant. Other poets include Kristin Prevallet, editor of A Helen Adam Reader (http://www.amazon.com/Helen-Adam-Reader/dp/0943373743), and Meena Alexander, author of Quickly Changing River (www.amazon.com/Quickly-Changing-River-Poems-Triquarterly/dp/0810124513). This event was held at the Bowery Poetry Club (www.bowerypoetry.com).