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.

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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
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©© 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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Christian Nagler (21:14)

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Christopher Higgenbotham (08:10)

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Conversation (17:45)

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