Progressive Poetry

June 26, 2008, 12:00pm – 1:30pm

About This Event

Percy Shelley said that poetry, also known as critical reflections upon popular culture, was a touchstone and an influencing agent for understanding and advocating for current issues. E. Ethelbert Miller, David Gewanter, and Naomi Ayala have each written poems in this spirit. It is a gender- and culturally diverse voice that will sound out to the audience messages of progressive change at the level both of policy but more importantly of worldview.

Please join the Center for American Progress for a discussion on the influence of poetry on the progressive movement.

Copies of Wild Animals on the Moon, Sleep of Reason, and How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love will be available for purchase.

Featured Poets:
Naomi Ayala, author, Wild Animals on the Moon
David Gewanter, Associate Professor, Georgetown University, author, Sleep of Reason
E. Ethelbert Miller, Board Chairperson, Institute for Policy Studies, author, How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love

Moderated by:
Michael Boylan, Visiting Fellow, Center for American Progress

Location

Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

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