Thu March 23, 2017
SYRIA -- Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration
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SYRIA -- Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration
with Jeanne Carstensen, Jack Hirschman, and Jack Marshall
The Poetry Society of America and City Lights Bookstore present SYRIA -- Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration, a poetry reading and discussion as part of the Poetry Coalition's 2017 programming. Twenty-two nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States have formed a historic coalition dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and communities, and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. As its first public offering, throughout the month of March 2017, Poetry Coalition members will present multiple programs on the theme: Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration, which borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's poem, "Borderbus." The Poetry Society in conjunction with City Lights prsent an evening that focusses on the Syrian refugee crisis. Poets Jack Hirschman and Jack Marshall, will read poems of theirs and others. Journalist Jeanne Cartensen will join them in conversation.
Jeanne Carstensen is a San Francisco based writer and radio reporter who is covering the refugee crisis in Greece for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. An editor at Salon, SFGate.com and the Whole Earth Review, most recently she was executive managing editor of The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of the New York Times. A National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University, her work has appeared in The New York Times, PRI's The World, Foreign Policy, Nautilus and Salon, among other publications. Currently she is a member of the Castro Writers' Cooperative where she has her Bay Area office.
Jack Hirschman is the former Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisco, a poet's poet, translator, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the ’60s, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is, in the words of poet Luke Breit, "America’s most important living poet." He is the author of numerous books of poetry, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are Endless Threshold, The Xibalba Arcane, and Lyripol (City Lights, 1976).
Born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several poetry collections that have received the PEN Center USA Award, two Northern California Book Awards, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle.
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with Jeanne Carstensen, Jack Hirschman, and Jack Marshall
The Poetry Society of America and City Lights Bookstore present SYRIA -- Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration, a poetry reading and discussion as part of the Poetry Coalition's 2017 programming. Twenty-two nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States have formed a historic coalition dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and communities, and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. As its first public offering, throughout the month of March 2017, Poetry Coalition members will present multiple programs on the theme: Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration, which borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's poem, "Borderbus." The Poetry Society in conjunction with City Lights prsent an evening that focusses on the Syrian refugee crisis. Poets Jack Hirschman and Jack Marshall, will read poems of theirs and others. Journalist Jeanne Cartensen will join them in conversation.
Jeanne Carstensen is a San Francisco based writer and radio reporter who is covering the refugee crisis in Greece for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. An editor at Salon, SFGate.com and the Whole Earth Review, most recently she was executive managing editor of The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of the New York Times. A National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University, her work has appeared in The New York Times, PRI's The World, Foreign Policy, Nautilus and Salon, among other publications. Currently she is a member of the Castro Writers' Cooperative where she has her Bay Area office.
Jack Hirschman is the former Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisco, a poet's poet, translator, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the ’60s, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is, in the words of poet Luke Breit, "America’s most important living poet." He is the author of numerous books of poetry, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are Endless Threshold, The Xibalba Arcane, and Lyripol (City Lights, 1976).
Born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several poetry collections that have received the PEN Center USA Award, two Northern California Book Awards, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle.
SYRIA -- Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration
with Jeanne Carstensen, Jack Hirschman, and Jack Marshall
The Poetry Society of America and City Lights Bookstore present SYRIA -- Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration, a poetry reading and discussion as part of the Poetry Coalition's 2017 programming. Twenty-two nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States have formed a historic coalition dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and communities, and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. As its first public offering, throughout the month of March 2017, Poetry Coalition members will present multiple programs on the theme: Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration, which borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's poem, "Borderbus." The Poetry Society in conjunction with City Lights prsent an evening that focusses on the Syrian refugee crisis. Poets Jack Hirschman and Jack Marshall, will read poems of theirs and others. Journalist Jeanne Cartensen will join them in conversation.
Jeanne Carstensen is a San Francisco based writer and radio reporter who is covering the refugee crisis in Greece for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. An editor at Salon, SFGate.com and the Whole Earth Review, most recently she was executive managing editor of The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of the New York Times. A National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University, her work has appeared in The New York Times, PRI's The World, Foreign Policy, Nautilus and Salon, among other publications. Currently she is a member of the Castro Writers' Cooperative where she has her Bay Area office.
Jack Hirschman is the former Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisco, a poet's poet, translator, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the ’60s, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is, in the words of poet Luke Breit, "America’s most important living poet." He is the author of numerous books of poetry, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are Endless Threshold, The Xibalba Arcane, and Lyripol (City Lights, 1976).
Born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several poetry collections that have received the PEN Center USA Award, two Northern California Book Awards, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle.
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with Jeanne Carstensen, Jack Hirschman, and Jack Marshall
The Poetry Society of America and City Lights Bookstore present SYRIA -- Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration, a poetry reading and discussion as part of the Poetry Coalition's 2017 programming. Twenty-two nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States have formed a historic coalition dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and communities, and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. As its first public offering, throughout the month of March 2017, Poetry Coalition members will present multiple programs on the theme: Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration, which borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's poem, "Borderbus." The Poetry Society in conjunction with City Lights prsent an evening that focusses on the Syrian refugee crisis. Poets Jack Hirschman and Jack Marshall, will read poems of theirs and others. Journalist Jeanne Cartensen will join them in conversation.
Jeanne Carstensen is a San Francisco based writer and radio reporter who is covering the refugee crisis in Greece for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. An editor at Salon, SFGate.com and the Whole Earth Review, most recently she was executive managing editor of The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of the New York Times. A National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University, her work has appeared in The New York Times, PRI's The World, Foreign Policy, Nautilus and Salon, among other publications. Currently she is a member of the Castro Writers' Cooperative where she has her Bay Area office.
Jack Hirschman is the former Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisco, a poet's poet, translator, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the ’60s, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is, in the words of poet Luke Breit, "America’s most important living poet." He is the author of numerous books of poetry, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are Endless Threshold, The Xibalba Arcane, and Lyripol (City Lights, 1976).
Born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several poetry collections that have received the PEN Center USA Award, two Northern California Book Awards, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle.
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