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Javier Sicilia: Poetics of Protest, Giving Voice to Mexico's Movement for Peace

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In conversation with Rubén Martínez, author and professor at Loyola Marymount University Translation by Betto Arcos Javier Sicilia, Mexican poet-turned-activist and leader of Mexico’s Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, is turning personal horror into hope for himself and his country. After the death of his son at the hands of drug traffickers last year, Sicilia swapped his pen for protest, pushing to stop the bloodshed. Leading the…

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Slavoj Zizek: God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse

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In conversation with Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, U.C. Irvine Slavoj Žižek, renowned Slovenian critical theorist, dissects and reconstructs three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, showing how each faith understands humanity and divinity—and how the differences between the faiths may be far stranger than they at first seem.

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The Rocket's Red Glare: Politics in Art and Poetry

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Edgar Arceneaux and Douglas Kearney In conversation with Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Program Director, Poetry Society of America In an election year driven by worldwide public demonstrations, congressional stagecraft and conflicting narratives, rhetoric, aesthetics and politics are apt to collide. As part of a 2012 national series, poet-performer Douglas Kearney and artist-activist Edgar Arceneaux of the Watts House Project discuss the political…

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Lawrence Weschler: From Exile to Home: Los Angeles Literary Life 1945 to 1980

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In conversation with David L. Ulin In the years since World War II, the literature of Los Angeles, like much about the city, has shifted, becoming less a literature of exile than one of place. Weschler—one of our foremost practitioners of literary nonfiction discusses this definitive period in Los Angeles' literary life. Part of Pacific Standard Time, Art in LA 1945-1980