Lannan Center Podcast
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University is a literary, critical, and pedagogical undertaking devoted to the situation of poetry and poetics in the contemporary world. Based in the President’s Office, the Center brings attention to a traditional domain of academic research, but sees poetry as a current practice rather than as a field of historical research. The Center recognizes that “art’s social presence,” in the phrase of Adrienne Rich, is vital to contemporary culture; that poetry, or writing more generally, traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought: it reconfigures these fields according to the designs of imagination. The Lannan Center hosts Readings and Talks throughout the academic year. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.
Lannan Center Podcast
2022 Lannan Symposium | Writing in a Time of Crisis
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Lannan Center / Rabih Alameddine, Aleksandar Hemon, Patricia Smith, Jacki Lyden
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We write to make sense of the world around us. From war and political violence to natural disasters and pandemics – how have writers of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction responded to crises in their nation’s history?
Panelists: Rabih Alameddine, Aleksandar Hemon, and Patricia Smith; Chaired by Jacki Lyden
Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.