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Both dance and poetry share a long history as forms of resistance in the wake of intergenerational trauma. We’ll speak to how dance, and its role in our poetic practices, allows us a way back into our bodies. Trauma comes from the Greek word for wound, and dance is a method of tending to said wounds, of embodying and reimagining aliveness within all that we have inherited. Dance as empowered creation. Dance as a way of informing a poetics that attends to a deeply embodied practice of imagination. In this way, dance poetics is a form of imagined futurity in the wake of past atrocity. The discussion of how our poetry and dance practices help us to reconnect with our bodies, as well as how these practices benefit us as artists and makers will resonate with an audience of writers in two major ways. First, it will engage writers who spend much of their time focused only on the cerebral experience of writing. Second, it will speak to how poetry can be an embodied practice with a corporeal argument. The moderator (myself) will begin the event by introducing the roundtable and the participating poets (5 min.). Each participant will give a brief introduction of their own work, including a short reading, performance, or other demonstration (7-8 min. each). The moderator will ask an opening question or two which all of the panelists will have the opportunity to answer (5 min.) before opening the discussion up to the room for audience Q and A (10 min.).