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(Frieda Werden)

WINGS #06-15 Poetics of Water

A reading by poet and scholar Rita Wong

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Length: 0:28:49
Uploaded: 30 May, 2015

Recording Date: 30 May, 2015
Recording Location: Denman Island BC
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Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
Copyright: Creative Commons License
WINGS #06-15 Poetics of Water by Rita Wong and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Program Title: WINGS #06-15 Poetics of Water
Description: In a reading on Denman Island, Wong speaks of walking the tar sands, learning our relations to oil and water, and how both missing and murdered women and missing and murdered watersheds are results of colonization.

Host(s): Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Rita Wong is an award-winning poet and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She studies relationships between contemporary poetics, social justice, ecology, and decolonization; her work on the poetics of water is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Credits: Produced by Frieda Werden; recording assistance, Hillel Wright; event: Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival, 2014

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Topic:
Arts and Culture > Books and Literature
Politics
Science and Technology
Environment
Regional > Canada > British Columbia
Society and Culture
Type: Weekly Program

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