Hiromi Goto Reads her Poem “The Body Politic”
Hiromi Goto is a writer of poetry and fiction (full bio here) who visited our students here at the UBC Creative Writing Department in January.
She attended student workshops and gave a process-based lecture to our undergraduates that explored elements of poetry such as line break vs. prose poem, structure/form, rhyme, homonyms, metaphor, cadence, creativity/cliché, representational poetry vs non-representational. She also honored us by reading her poem The Body Politic, which she kindly allowed us to record and share with you. Here it is:
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Now in its 31st year, the University of British Columbia presents the Brave New Play Rites Festival premiering twenty six short plays at Studio 1398 on Granville Island. We have 10 Full Productions and 16 Staged Readings, written by UBC Creative Writing students, and performed and presented by talent from in and around the Vancouver theatre community. Twenty-six writers, fourteen directors, thirty-five actors, three producers, and a six-member technical team create stories of profundity, chaos and hilarity.