Documentary Poetry and Buried American Archives

Harvard FAS

As former US Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway writes "I know now that if we choose / to keep any part of what is behind us, / we must take all of it..." This creative writing workshop will explore documentary poetry as means of interrogating America's adversarial relationship to its own history. How does art enable us to "take all of it" especially the aspects of history dominant narratives usually abandon or suppress? For example, what impact does racial weathering have on mental and…