In his “The Witness of Poetry,” the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz reflects on the idea of poetry as both a “participant and witness” in “the major transformations of our time” and that poetry “witnesses us.” This hour-long generative workshop will introduce you first to the poetics and poetry of witness. Then, we will discuss the themes of displacement, war trauma, gender, and sexual identities in selected poems and audio clips. Finally, through a generative exercise and a writing prompt, we will write poems that 'witness us.’

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