Saturday, October 25 at 11:00am to 12:30pm
Poetry Makes Us Brave Linda will present with Krysten Hill, Rachel Dillon, Deborah Leipziger, and Tzynya Pinchback
Venue: The Goethe Institute, 170 Beacon Street, Boston Ma 02116.
Audre Lorde said, “but when we are silent / we are still afraid / So it is better to speak.” Poetry calls on us to be both courageous and vulnerable. How do we find the courage to write the truth about our lives? How can we witness change and chaos in brave ways? This panel features five poets who will discuss how poetry can make us feel braver and share some of their bold words. In her first collection, Dot Girl, Linda Carney-Goodrich breaks new ground in her searing poems of redemption and transformation. She takes us by the hand and guides us through her childhood, coming of age in Boston and surviving foster care. Rachel Dillon’s poems show both the revery and destruction of humans moving through the natural world, while asking us to be brave for what is to come. Our hands are needed to repair what has been broken and to hold close what we cherish. Krysten Hill’s How Her Spirit Got Out is a lively, urgent song. With intensity, audacity, and a darkly comic wit, Hill grapples with the question of how to fight “a city that knows you’re unarmed,” rendering each poem as a weapon and a shield, and using both for self-defense. In Story & Bone, Deborah Leipziger delves into matters at the core of our very being: identity, heritage, and belonging. Tzynya Pinchback writes the Black woman body in nature, in illness, and in joy as a deliberate act. Pinchback is currently participating in the “Writing the Land Project,” connecting writers to conserved landscapes across the Northeast. Sponsored by Mass Poetry