To
help you plan your festival schedule, we broke down panels, workshops,
and group readings by special interest. Check out those dealing with war below!
War
Thursday 3/27:
11:30am-1pm – Charles Sumner School, Rm 101
Using Art and Poetry Created by Children and Teens in Wartime to Bring Activism for Peace into the Classroom
Using Art and Poetry Created by Children and Teens in Wartime to Bring Activism for Peace into the Classroom
Merna Ann Hecht
Using examples of children’s visual art
and poetry from the Spanish Civil War, Gaza, Vietnam and the former Yugoslavia,
this workshop will demonstrate how this artwork is essential to effective
social justice education. Poetry created by recently arrived teenage refugees
from Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma, and Nepal will also be introduced to
further the discussion about the urgency of integrating the devastating effects
of war and the possibilities for creating peace into public school curricula.
Participants will write persona poems in order to experience the ways high
school and college students can understand war through direct interaction with
artistic expressions about the trauma of violent conflict and forced
migrations. Handouts include writing prompts, poetry examples, and an extensive
bibliography of children’s and young adult literature, poetry, and visual art
related to war and peace.
Friday 3/28:
4-5:30pm – Charles Sumner School, Rm 102
Women
and War/Women and Peace II
Samiya
Bashir, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Melanie Graham, Robin Coste
Lewis, Kim Jensen
Two
years ago, we launched our first women and war/women and peace panel—and the
results were powerful and well-received. The topic is hardly exhausted; in
fact, that panel sparked the desire to make further critical connections
between militarism and widespread violence against women. This time, we will
continue to discuss the effect of systemic violence against women—and share our
approaches to representing these themes in poetry. We will think about the ways
that both war and non-violent resistance are enacted in social, historical, and
familial matrices. Each presenter will read a few short poems and speak briefly
on the critical and creative frameworks that have informed their aesthetic practices,
followed by a Q&A.Saturday 3/29:
11:30am-1pm – Beacon
Hotel, Beacon Room
New Vietnamese Poetry: A Group Reading & Discussion
Cathy Linh Che, Paul
Tran, Ocean Vuong
The Vietnam War continues to inform
public discourse, scholarship, and national policies on race, empire, and the
struggle for human rights. This layered roundtable and reading will excavate
voices from the diaspora’s exiled. Three Vietnamese American poets will share
their work and lead a discussion on the Vietnam War and its legacies in new
Vietnamese poetry, exploring death, ghosts, belonging, displacement, memory,
debt, intergenerational trauma, and sexual assault. It will examine how poetry
and spoken word recover the history of marginalized peoples and the war's
connection to U.S. colonialism throughout the world. Sponsored by Kundiman, an
organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American
poetry.
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