Event Title

Panel: Politics in Poetry

Location

UND Memorial Ballroom

Start Date

23-3-1983 12:00 PM

End Date

23-3-1983 1:00 PM

Description

This audiovisual recording from March 23, 1983 as part of the 14th annual UND Writers Conference: “The Centennial Year” features Carolyn Forché, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky forming the panel “Politics in Poetry.” The panelists discuss the intersection of poetry and politics, the separation of poetry and politics, Forché's experience with political poetry in Spanish, the responsibility of the poet to society as a spokesperson beyond political state, and self-censorship for political writing. They respond to audience questions about notions of inherent politics in art, which prompts Brodsky to recite W. H. Auden's “Sept. 1, 1939,” and the panelists further discuss the distinction of political writing and political reading regarding state involvement in art, touching on political journalism and bipartisanism on an international scale.

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Panel: Politics in Poetry

UND Memorial Ballroom

This audiovisual recording from March 23, 1983 as part of the 14th annual UND Writers Conference: “The Centennial Year” features Carolyn Forché, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky forming the panel “Politics in Poetry.” The panelists discuss the intersection of poetry and politics, the separation of poetry and politics, Forché's experience with political poetry in Spanish, the responsibility of the poet to society as a spokesperson beyond political state, and self-censorship for political writing. They respond to audience questions about notions of inherent politics in art, which prompts Brodsky to recite W. H. Auden's “Sept. 1, 1939,” and the panelists further discuss the distinction of political writing and political reading regarding state involvement in art, touching on political journalism and bipartisanism on an international scale.