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Race and Poetry: Integrating the Experimental. Event produced by David Kirschenbaum of Boog City. Moderated and curated by poet Amy King. Videographer: Ian Wilder. Director: Kimberly Wilder. September 21, 2008. Great and detailed discussion of race in poetry aesthetics and poetry community. (Strong language) Panel includes poets: Christopher Stackhouse, Meghan Punschke, Mathias Svalina, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Jennifer Firestone, Tisa Bryant, Timothy Liu. This is pretty raw footage of the discussion and the first part of the q&a. There are youtube clips of the event at Amy King’s youtube site: here.
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[…] 2nd annual Welcome to Boog City festival 9/18- 9/21/08 Hi, Link to video from 2008 Boog City panel on Race and Poetry is: here. […]
[…] Stay tuned for the *complete* audio of the Race and Poetry panel @ PennSound [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/King.html or on a “bigger” page, waiting to hear]. In the meantime, *incomplete* video @ Blip.TV [http://amyking.blip.tv/ – better quality & only 3 long parts] or YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/user/amyhappens] with 7 shorter videos. The Wilders have also put up video. […]