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April 1, 2014 – Hour 1
We bring you a conversation about the Politics of Writing. Last Friday I participated in the Split This Rock poetry festival in Washington, DC, where educators, students and writers from across the country wrestled with the political objectives of writing in a contemporary world.
I was honored to serve on a panel with award-winning American poet Mark Nowak and Bill Ayers, retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident. We shared our ideas on the politics of writing, and reflected on George Orwell’s 1946 essay “Why I Write.”
