Tomorrow, Wed, Sept. 26th -- PANEL: “Give Me Your Tired..” + #METOO: A POETRY COLLECTIVE @ CHICAGO REVIEW

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“Give Me Your Tired..” : Poem, 135 years old, Makes Waves

Panel Discussion and Poetry Reading featuring Esther Schor, Steven Choi, Christina Greer, and Amy King

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

The American Jewish Historical Society

15 West 16th Street

New York, NY 10011

Tel: 212-294-6160

Emma Lazarus’s sonnet, “The New Colossus,” is perhaps this country’s most famous poem, and recent immigration policies and controversies have thrust both statue and poem into the headlines, from Stephen Miller’s press conference to recent Independence Day protests. Esther Schor, Princeton Professor of English and author of Emma Lazarus, analyzes the recent wave of media attention. To what extent is the Statue of Liberty under fire, and to what extent is she inspiring poetry and actions that uphold her ideals? A panel of respondents include: Steven Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, Christina Greer, political scientist, commentator and author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration and the Pursuit of the American Dream, Amy King, poet and co-curator of the Guardian’s “”Huddled Masses…” feature.

AJHS - http://ajhs.org/%E2%80%9Cgive-me-your-tired%E2%80%9D-poem-135-years-old-makes-waves

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#METOO: A POETRY COLLECTIVE @ CHICAGO REVIEW - http://chicagoreview.org/metoo/

“Not speaking for others, especially for women, has always been critical to our critical thinking so we do not want here to attempt to “sum up” or to unify this varied selection of individual voices. (We are all too conscious of the dangers inherent in Derrida’s notion of the “totalizing assemblage,” as invoked in Sandeep Parmar’s contribution.) Those individual voices can, do, and should speak for themselves. They contain powerful cries of courage and hurt, criticism and hope; they also, we think, provide very valuable ways of perceiving these complicated, always-been-there problems anew, of witnessing them—which is of first order importance—and also thinking them through, with the attendant hope that thereby they might be countered in the future.”

– Emily Critchley and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, from the “Introduction”

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