Reclaiming Stories: An Erasure Poetry Workshop with Sonia Farmer

​Erasure poetry is the act of removing text from recorded material to create a new narrative. In this workshop, we will use found texts around us–books, official reports, newspaper articles, speeches, manifestos, declarations, manuals, transcriptions, etc–to experiment with this technique.

Historically loaded with violence, “erasure” often meant–or continues to mean–the complete obliteration of something (land, voice, people), to leave no trace behind. In this class, we reclaim erasure as a political act, a reversal in power, and an exercise in repair, disrupting and investigating these existing narratives and creating our own responses using them as raw material.

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