In Occupy Poetics, Thom Donovan collects a series of responses to the Occupy movement to observe how aesthetics and politics might intersect.
Excerpt:
If formatting determines not just content, but how we gather, then exploring new modalities for participation is absolutely essential for change. Poets have complained ceaselessly about the fourth wall of the poetry reading as a genre. Certainly the People’s Mic offers one solution to this problem.
—from Thom Donovan's Introduction from the Vital Forms Symposium
In Occupy Poetics, Thom Donovan collects a series of responses to the Occupy movement to observe how aesthetics and politics might intersect.
Excerpt:
If formatting determines not just content, but how we gather, then exploring new modalities for participation is absolutely essential for change. Poets have complained ceaselessly about the fourth wall of the poetry reading as a genre. Certainly the People’s Mic offers one solution to this problem.
—from Thom Donovan's Introduction from the Vital Forms Symposium