Poetry and Prose For Human Rights in Oaxaca
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We see our job as more than perhaps just your usual librarian duties. It's also about proactively maintaining & adding to our library/archive, and acting as a witness and curator for poetry that is more fluid and transitory in nature - poetry that really has a place in the real world - as well as sticking by the opinions of one of our heroes, which includes remembering that 'The library is a growing organism' (Ranganathan: 'Laws of Library Science', 1931). Organisms exist in the real world. As does poetry. And me and you too. As part of these duties we went to document a public read-out for 'Justice in Oaxaca, Mexico' outside the Mexican Consulate (532 Folsom St, between 1st St. and 2nd St.) in San Francisco, which took place on Monday, March 26, from 12 noon.
It featured: Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Blood on the Border; Larry Bogad, author of Electoral Guerrilla Theatre and a veteran of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army; Aryeh Shell, Herstories Project; Itinerant Poet Bill Evans; Jack Hirschman, Poet Laureate of San Francisco and more . . .
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