Event Type
This reading and performance event will feature the work of four poets writing against empire. "Against" here resonates not only as a preposition, expressing relation and the fact that empire is the prevailing environment, the primary constitutive force of the world-system, but "against" also indicates the ardent anti-imperialism that motivates and shapes the poetics of these four poets. The reading will engage and indicate different angles of attack, and a diversity of aesthetic tactics in expressing & embodying critique of empire and US imperialism. These poets' work each engages, and confronts different aspects of US imperialism including the so-called Global War on Terrorism; the destructive consequences of colonization & imperialism for (world) ecologies; the on-going imposition of US power in Latin America; and the US political and material facilitation of the genocide in Gaza, and the continuation of the occupation of Palestine.