Lily Hoang and Jackie Wang: March 3, 2018

The Poetry Center presents Jackie Wang and Lily Hoang reading at The Green Arcade. This event, debuting Jackie Wang's book Carceral Capitalism, is one of many programs featured across the U.S. during March 2018 as part of the Poetry Coalition series on The Body, sponsored in part by a Ford Foundation grant to the Poetry Coalition. Lily Hoang (introduced by Jackie Wang) opens, reading from A Bestiary (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2016). She is followed by Jackie Wang (introduced by Brandon Brown) reading from Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e) Interventions Series, 2018).

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DocFilm Institute
Location
The Green Arcade, San Francisco
Date
03/03/2018
Total Run Time
00:56:36
Contributor
Steve Dickison, Patrick Marks, Brandon Brown
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Lily Hoang (00:24:01)

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After being introduced by Jackie Wang, who remarks on her personal and professional relationship with Lily Hoang, Hoang reads "On Catastrophe" from her book of essays A Bestiary.

Jackie Wang (00:21:21)

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Following an introduction by Brandon Brown, Jackie Wang remarks on her just-released book Carceral Capitalism and how she was inspired by Robin D.G. Kelley's book Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2002). She discusses the possibility of poetry doing political work and its role in denaturalizing the prison system. From Carceral Capitalism, she reads excepts from the Conclusion and from the sections: "One: A Dozen Roses Against the Police State," "Two: Entombed Flowers," and "Three: Planting a Dream."

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