June Jordan’s poem, “INTIFADA INCANTATION: Poem #8 for b.b.L.” begins urgently:

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED
GENOCIDE TO STOP

In Book 18 of The Iliad (trans. Emily Wilson), while lamenting his beloved Patroclus’ death, the hero Achilles cries out to his divine mother Thetis:

“If only conflict were eliminated
from gods and human beings! I wish anger
did not exist. Even the wisest people
are roused to rage, which trickles into you
sweeter than honey, and inside your body
it swells like smoke—”

GRIEF & RAGE
RAGE & GRIEF

Join me at Brooklyn Poets for an evening workshop exploring how these two emotions, charged as they are with negative associations, might actually be in service of our collective healing rather than destruction—if only we are willing to feel them earnestly.

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WHERE:

Brooklyn Poets
144 Montague Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11201

WHEN:

6:30—9:00pm EST