Stacy Syzmazek: Imagine You Are Not Alone: Project-Life

Let's begin to "crack open the case file" on The Poetry Project. How did it start? How does it still exist? Invented from necessity by poets, run by poets for a half-century, how is it still necessary? (If we presume it is.) What forms of action have kept it a "high energy construct" and what others are possible on site and off? We'll read interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter, listen to oral histories and readings from the archive, and consider the New Year's Day Marathon as direct action (+ how-to perform a 2 min. poem that leaves people wanting more). We'll read and respond to work (and work about work) published by the Project over its history and see what we can learn about the spirit of this and other infrastructures supporting communities of poets (and vice versa).