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SUMMARY:Line Breaks Festival at Memorial Union and A Room of One's Own
DESCRIPTION:The annual Line Breaks Festival offers an ever-shifting testament to the bold visions of the students in UW-Madison’s First Wave program. Rooted in hip-hop and spoken-word\, First Wave attracts artists who tend to mix together all sorts of disciplines\, from theater to dance to fashion to visual art. As a result\, the alumni who’ve come through the program since it launched in 2007 cover extensive ground: Poet Danez Smith\, Black Arts Matter Festival founder Shasparay Irvin\, writer/musician Hiwot Adilow\, dancer/rapper/filmmaker James Gavins\, blisteringly focused MCs like Defcee and CRASHprez\, and that’s barely scratching the surface. \nThe Line Breaks schedule is a bit different each time out\, but you can always count on showcases of multiple works from current First Wave students\, alums\, and some exciting guests. Visiting this year from Chicago is poet and scholar Eve L. Ewing\, whose published works include the poetry/visual art collection Electric Arches and the nonfiction book Ghosts In The Schoolyard\, which examines the decimation of Chicago’s south-side public schools under the mayoral administration of Rahm Emanuel. Another can’t-miss guest this year is Chicago singer-songwriter\, poet\, and playwright Jamila Woods—if you haven’t heard her expansive take on R&B on 2019’s LEGACY! LEGACY!\, do yourself a kindness and catch up. \nRegistration is already full for a March 30 talk with Ewing and poet/UW-Madison professor Paul Tran at A Room of One’s Own—but you can still register for the waitlist. Either way\, don’t fret: The real heart of Line Breaks is the performance showcases\, taking place this year on March 31 and April 1\, both nights at 6 p.m. in the Union Theater. Across these two nights\, performers will include Diya Abbas\, Azura Tyabji\, Jackson Neal\, Shasparay Irvin\, Nate Marshall\, Woods\, and Ewing\, among others. Trying to succinctly sum up just what you’ll be seeing here is beside the point. Instead\, just set aside any expectations and get ready to embrace a remarkably fertile overlap of words\, movement\, music\, narrative\, and the myriad ways they can be combined. \n—Scott Gordon \nIllustration by Shaysa Sidebottom.
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SUMMARY:Monsters Of Poetry: Erika Meitner\, Paul Tran\, Nate Marshall\, and Matthew Guenette at Genna's Lounge
DESCRIPTION:At what cost are we alive? Erika Meitner\, Paul Tran\, Nate Marshall\, and Matthew Guenette grapple with this question in their poetry. As they take the Monsters of Poetry stage\, expect to hear their testaments of survival\, grit\, and endurance through the lyric.  \nThree of the four are faculty of the English Department at UW-Madison. Meitner joined last fall as a professor and the director of the MFA program. In her latest book Useful Junk\, published by BOA Editions in April 2022\, she writes about desire and the body—the liminal and the physical—through documentary poetry. She writes a liturgy for the masses: “we who collect regular explanations of benefits / we who worry about food security.” \nTran is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies. Their debut poetry collection All The Flowers Kneeling\, published by Penguin Random House in February 2022\, explores American imperialism and intergenerational trauma. In “Orchard Of Knowing\,” Tran writes\, “All of them point at me / as the kill to complete your mission.” Through history and the lyric\, they unflinchingly challenge how we see liberation and control. \nIn his 2020 book Finna\, Nate Marshall\, also an English professor at UW\, writes about survival: “imagine this\, a man / made donut\, chest open\, / hollow\, everything poured / out\, available\, nowhere.” Amidst his painful reckoning with his lineage and the ruptures violence has caused\, Marshall imagines a future of hope. \nMatthew Guenette teaches English at Madison College. In his book Doom Scroll\, which will be released this year from the University of Akron Press\, he talks about the anxiety of living today. He describes the lockdown\, the political state of our world\, and “a field of dandelions to break me in half” all within the same stanza. This existential plea encapsulates the experience of living through the pandemic and its aftermath. \nAll of these poets do not leave us with clean-cut answers as we go through the questions of life. But as we read their work and listen to their poems\, we know that we are not alone in the fight to remain here. The lyric testifies to this. \n—Hannah Keziah Agustin
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