In the Blaney lecture“Not Persuasion, But Transport: The Poetry of Witness” on October 25, 2013, at Poets Forum in New York City. (and archived on Poets.org) Carolyn Forché said,:
I had the pleasure of hosting this event. Thank you to the writers of these great poems & prose featured last week at Meet the Moment. Carter Meland Julie Gard Sara Sowers-Wills Jess Morgan, Anastasia Bamford Ryan Vine Jayson Iwen Liz Minette, Troy Peters, Haley Swann, Patty Fleege, Lexi Clark, Sarah Royer-Stoll, and Claudia Daly. Wussow's Concert Cafe, Zomi BloomI know that poetry begins in a not-knowing rather than a moral impulse. A poet’s consciousness is, in this sense, improvisational and open to transformations, felicitous accidents, and an intuitive response to language-generating meaning and music—that is true whether the spark igniting the poem comes from a word, a phrase, an image, or a moment in experience, present or remembered....I also know that consciousness can be incised by experience, seared by memory, awakened by what is seen and lived and that the poet’s language also passes through this fire and is marked by it."
Here's a sample of songs created in resistance to ICE.
Singing Resistance this winter in Minneapolis
The Streets of Minneapolis: Three Irish Women
The Rise of the North
F**k ICE by Scared Ketchup
