The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Poetry to Violence and Trauma
—Based on a talk I gave on a panel in 2017 at the Western Maryland Independent Literary Festival
Richard Jeffrey Newman
A poet and essayist, I write about gender and sexuality, Jewish identity and culture, writing and translation. My goal? To make connections that matter. I also help other writers do the same.
Why I Write "It All Connects"
...because it represents the vantage point from which I make the connections that matter most to me.
Four by Four #50
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
The Kind Of Courage These Times Call For
not from poets in particular, but from poets no differently than anybody else
Four by Four #49
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
Four Flowers
A Gray Praying Mantis
Poetry Versus Propaganda: When a Poem Devolves Into Rhetoric
The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.
—Audre Lorde, “Power”
Back
Four by Four #48
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
The Grand Canyon
At The Brooklyn Book Festival
At the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 21, I had the opportunity to record this video for Sagging Meniscus press.
