PWAPWA

4:30-6:15
South Court West 2nd Floor F187. Writers and Politics. (Lucina Kathmann, Kelley Alexander, Heriberto Yépez, Joshua Clover, Brent Cunningham) Nick Flynn

Lucina Kathmann
freedom to write tomorrow the poetry of the heart the conference born and moved internationally the largest worldwide organization throughout all the continents and situations which starts us out non-political partisan issues and freedom jealously criticized with respect to its policies and the large social issues and history. in 1921 personal friendships among writers from different land created a personal vision of stirrings and a world congress of absence, noteworthy because of the press which helped with the situation in every congress and prison. many cases that have a gender element are burning and may be experienced in these cases of infringement and a special role in the family, focusing on the internal workings during the years of existence, hand in hand with countries and places of both genders, two volumes of distribution are all our cases today, a series of meetings at the very early stage in the meetings a gentle little lady in our midst, wonderful for photos but nobody's sure what to do with her, bit by bit anything began congresses a charming newspaper, advice columnist, two little stone elements and hubris, right behind bits of paper and phrases tooke the place of teh chronicler of history, working on the idea of a dream finally in July discharged as indeterminate and unbelievable messages and nothing but tears, this is the power of the dream, honestly a good idea never once suspected and floating about in the air with faith at work vexed by abuse and pointing out very sad systems with a lot of questions among the rural poor too far from home part of a criminal underclass in a cathedral of lament, a carpet of light crushing memories in the night, plunging into the ocean of fires on the banks of dawn, the desert buried hope dressed in misery with the fire of the midday sun far away when the shadows of night disappear and we live together in the future snuffing out all the tomorrows

Heriberto Yépez
off the page using walls in the night, part of the walls in the neighborhood on the periphery of the city of public transportation, starting to become visual at the time considering a society at its initial point of question and point of resistance continuing the tradition on the city physically continuing the verbal public using the border in an illegal way with political humor that nobody was understanding in english, which has become very important as an exploration of language obviously leftist mexican marxist anti-gringo, critical of imperialism at the point where we really get to something, the real deeper meaning of the US, not as a country but as thought control, how we control centers of others and how we leave others controlled by centers, the meaning of what's happening. what are the united states and why are there so many of them. all critique is a projection onto life built upon a secret invisible individual realization of objects and subjects, there's a deeper reality in deep trouble, emotions and how we avoid them, how we become naive so we can avoid responsibility and blame others

Nick Flynn
in the course of political things one comes to structure and short ramblings and quotes of evil built into our whole adversary in ourselves in that what allows systems to take place and pointing a finger at a place for that this morning as a conversation not a manifesto or anthology among things all these discussions intimately conversing as one side of a story becomes dominant another becomes silent, something about torture very raggedy and rant like, satisfying but un congealed as part of the world, provocative and unformed around these photographs and the military commissions act - once you put a thought out there it returns as appearance around the beginning like a lot of things an enormous crisis and an award as an organization and these lectures on torture from the aclu along with lawyers and ex-prisoners along with an artist with ten copper plates and depositions written around what they say written backwards weaving all these things together more effectively than taking a stance

Joshua Clover [had to leave before the panel ended]
witty comments on previous speakers, the grand political problem of the moment is the problem otherwise it could dissolve from the page speaking freely to scoff at poets talking about politics preaching to the converted dispensing with the first rather swiftly as whether