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The power of poetry: Poetry and belonging

A large black-and-white poster with the outline of the United States of America with eyes looking out from within the border.

This poster for a P4P reading illustrates how student poets “answer back with poetry” when their right to belong is threatened.

Whose Country Is This, Anyway?

Come hear June Jordan’s Poetry for the People
Student Poets
answer back with poetry

1st night
Wed. April 19 [at] 7:30 pm
in Maude Fife Room,
315 Wheeler Hall
FREE [and] open to the public
Reception immediately after reading

Wheelchair accessible
Sign language interpreter [and] childcare
available upon request (642-2743)

2nd night Fri. April 21
Same time [and] place

“Whose Country Is This, Anyway?,” circa 1995, Poetry for the People program records, 1991-2010, CES ARC 2018/1, Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley.