Tag: poetry

In conversation with Erica Kaufman — rescheduled

We have had to re-schedule our Q&A with Erica Kaufman to April 2, 2026.

Taking inspiration from Adrienne Rich, Erica will be talking with us about her own insights into the “urgency of language (language made by humans)”; how this relates to pedagogical practices we use to democratize the classroom and empower students to take ownership over their own education; and how these interventions might take different forms, just as poetry engages language differently from other forms of writing.

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Poets (and educators) of the world unite!

Poetry has the capacity to remind us of something we are forbidden to see. A forgotten future: a still uncreated site whose moral architecture is founded not on ownership and dispossession, the subjection of women, outcast and tribe, but on the continuous redefining of freedom — that word now held under house arrest by the rhetoric of the ‘free’ market. This on-going future, written off over and over, is still within view. All over the world its paths are being rediscovered and reinvented.

Adrienne Rich, ‘Legislators of the World’, 1977

You are very welcome to join us this week on Thursday for our Q&A with Erica Kaufman as we continue to reflect on the scholarship and practice of Adrienne Rich. Please subscribe to our mailing list to stay up-to-date about meetings: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CPG&A=1