Writing into the Wounds

Discussing his own work, Philip Metres has said, “I believe that poetry can be a technology to help remember the past, but not be suffocated by it. To listen to the ancestors in the spirit world, but not worship them or be imprisoned by them. A technology to dream the future, but not be destroyed by it. To remember what we have not yet known.”

In this writer’s mini-seminar, Metres focuses on these ideas, and the important work poetry can do. The session will be moderated by poet and Downtown Writers Center director Philip Memmer.

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This event is part of Syracuse Symposium’s year-long series on “Futures.” See the full season schedule at humcenter.syr.edu.

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