On Wednesday November 24, join me (Tea Gerbeza) and Emilia Nielsen for conversations about poetry, poetics, and experiential knowledge of disability with readings from us both!
Now that the event is over, you can watch a recording of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MzANPaCv4w&ab_channel=LeagueofCanadianPoets
Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqde2vqj0sEtYaQfM3sScnBJbE8rl2F0_A
About our talk:
Poetry, Poetics and Experiential Knowledge of Disability
In this conversational exchange, poet and professor Emilia Nielsen and poet and multimedia artist Tea Gerbeza explore the many ways disability shows up in life, art, and writing. Reflecting on the impetus for their own critical and creative work in disability studies and crip theory as well as the many questions that remain unanswered where the representation and reality of disability is concerned, Nielsen and Gerbeza urge for a rethinking of disability poetry so that it might include fierce love, pleasure and even joy all while unpacking ableism and ableist common sense logics. Here, the poetry and poetics of disability aspire to be as disruptive and unruly as the bodies and minds from which the work emerges.
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More about the series from The League of Canadian Poets: “The Canadian Association for Health Humanities and the League of Canadian Poets are partnering to deliver a series of monthly rounds focused on health, arts and humanities. These live sessions will feature both artists and professionals in the Health Humanities field for a multi-faceted conversation about topics related to healthcare, art, healing, and humanities.
In this ground-breaking new series, health humanities and poetry come together under the same scope, combining artistic expression with health practice and research. The conversations of Cross-Pollinations will illuminate new and emerging insights and perspectives on healthcare opportunities and challenges, healthcare approaches and advances, as well as build bridges of connection between health professionals, humanities and the arts.
This series is ideal for people in arts communities, poets and writers, as well as those working in healthcare.” (https://poets.ca/cross-pollinations/)