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Episode 128: Poetry and Questions of Peace
In this episode, Poetry and Questions of Peace, author Zach Savich asks "Is peace the absence of conflict or a state that can exist within conflict? How can writing cultivate, reveal, practice, and advance personal and shared forms of peaceable assembly? What's the relationship between peace and protest, politics and private experience?" This lecture considers diverse poems that help us think about these questions, including work by poets such as Ghayath Almadhoun, Yehuda Amichai, Gwendolyn Brooks, Kenneth Koch, Hayan Charara, Jane Hirshfield, and others. We'll consider how literature can help us make peace, again and again, and what can be made from that.
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This talk was originally given on Thursday, June 13, 2019 in the Phillips Auditorium on the University of Iowa campus.