Open To Discussion: Writers Under Fire: 1970?s Innocence Abandoned
Guild Complex
Throughout history and into present times, writers have been threstened, imprisoned, and even killed because of their work. This program explores how writers survive and create under difficult circumstances, looking at the circumstances for contemporary African American and native American writers, as well as for writers in Argentina during the repression of the 1970s.
Throughout history and into present times, writers have been threstened, imprisoned, and even killed because of their work. This program explores how writers survive and create under difficult circumstances, looking at the circumstances for contemporary African American and native American writers, as well as for writers in Argentina during the repression of the 1970s.
Poet, Translator and human rights activist Alicia Partnoy is one of the few survivors from secret detention camps in which about 30,000 Argentineans were ?disappeared?. ?I have the utmost admiration for Alicia Partnoy?s work and spirit? says poet Adrienne Rich. Partnoy is the author of The little School ? Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina (Cleis Press), Revenge of the Apple-Venganza de la manzana (Cleis Press) You Can?t Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile (Cleis Press) and The Discourse of Solidarity in Testimonal ?Poemarios? from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (Ann Arbor) Salim Muwakkil is a senior editor of In These Times magazine and contributing columnist to the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune. He also teaches journalism at Columbia College and Northwestern University in Chicago, and is on the faculty of the Associated College?s of the Midwest?s Urban Studies Program in Chicago. Salim is notable on such programs as Chicago Tonight (WTTW-Chicago). Denise Sweet is an Anishinnaabe poet [White Earth] and Professor of Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She is the director of Who We are, What is Ours: Young Writer?s Workshop, UW-Green Bay?s first self-sponsored pre-college program for students of color. Denise?s books include – Songs for Discharming (Greenfield Review Press), Days of Obsidian, Days of Grace. Her work also appears in various anthologies including Reinventing the Enemy?s Language: Contemporary Native Women?s Writing of North America, edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird.Performers
Alicia Partony, Salim Muwakkill, Denise Sweet