There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money: Five Poets Respond to Capitalism

It is particularly important in the current economic context—the broad defunding of arts, the hardships that are the byproduct of devalued artistic endeavors, among other pressures—to consider how the poem is both a vessel and a product of capitalism, and how poetry can explicitly push back against the broad economic system that dehumanizes and, as Adrienne Rich put it, “eviscerate[s] language of meaning.” Five poets will read from work that engages with questions of capital and undertakes the work of rehumanizing and reclaiming meaning.