Skip to content
Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich and the Feminist Superhero: The Poetics of Women’s Political Resistance

February 17, 2017, 12:00 AM EST

One a lyric poet and essayist, the other a jazz poet, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American poetry superheroes who produced extensive bodies of work—revealing overlapping visions of social equality in radically distinct aesthetic modes. This multi-media event brings together both poets’ historical works to champion their literary-political engagement. It highlights their feminist voices of resistance, their fight for social justice and global peace.
Learn more here.

Return to the International Poetry Calendar.

Details

Date:
February 17, 2017
Time:
12:00 AM EST