13 ways of looking at poetry and politics

In this one-day symposium at the Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver, BC), thirteen poets will address the possibilities, practicalities, and improbabilities of poetry intervening in the political sphere. Through a reflection of their own practice and concomitant critical discourse, these 13 will present a number of ways of looking at poetry and politics. This interactive event will include readings, presentations, and a variety of discussions intended to engage with the following questions: how can poetry be read as a political act? what purpose might there be to writing, reading, publishing, and performing poetry? and what possible political futures can we read into the act(s) of making poetry?