Poems as Time Machines

"Poems as Time Machines" a spoken word poetry workshop for teens facilitated by Danez Smith, powered by TruArtSpeaks

Since the beginning of time, we’ve been obsessed with time. How does it move? How are we held within it? How can we move in and out of it? Poets particularly seem obsessed with time and many have used poetry as a vehicle for time travel, finding queer and radical possibilities in going forward into the future or backward into the past for healing, or revolution, or for pure play. In this workshop we’ll read a sampling of poets going forward, backwards, and deeper into time before designing our own machines (hint: its poems) that will move us across the timeline to discover what waits for us if we dive into the stream and let it carry us further into our imaginations and how sitting in new relationship with time can change the point of view.

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