Poet | Artist |Activist: Let’s Make A Plan: November 12, 2015
The Poetry Center and the Labor Archives and Research Center present poet/artist/activists Cassie Thornton, Christian Nagler, and Christopher Higgenbotham discussing their community projects and reading and performing their works. Tanya Hollis introduces the event, followed by Cassie Thornton reimagining the meaning and structure of debt; Christian Nagler reading a series of poems; and Christopher Higgenbotham performing his spoken-word poem “Why, America?” The event concludes with questions from the audience. Co-sponsored by The Poetry Center, SFSU Labor Archives and Research Center, and Service Employees International Union Local 1021.
- Originally Recorded By
- DocFilm Institute
- Location
- Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, SFSU
- Date
- 11/12/2015
- Total Run Time
- 01:18:25
- Contributor
- Steve Dickison, Jessica Lawless, Tanya Hollis, Catherine Powell, Cassie Thornton, Christian Nagler, Christopher Higgenbotham
- Rights
- ©© American Poetry Archives. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For all other uses please email poetry@sfsu.edu
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Cassie Thornton (31:25)
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