THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE WILL BE STRONGER THAN THE PIG'S TECHNOLOGY: Organized by Arthur Fournier
An exhibition, a symposium, and a month-long series of events re-examining the interdependent legacies of revolutionary poetry and the militant left in the United States, with a spotlight on Allen Van Newkirk's Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets (Detroit, Mich. & New York City: 1967-1968) and the recent & upcoming 50th anniversaries of the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Calif. (1966) and the White Panther Party in Detroit, Mich. (1968) including a presentation of rare ephemera from both groups.
An exhibition, a symposium, and a month-long series of events re-examining the interdependent legacies of revolutionary poetry and the militant left in the United States, with a spotlight on Allen Van Newkirk's Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets (Detroit, Mich. & New York City: 1967-1968) and the recent & upcoming 50th anniversaries of the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Calif. (1966) and the White Panther Party in Detroit, Mich. (1968) including a presentation of rare ephemera from both groups.
A complete run of Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets serves as the focal point for an exhibition of revolutionary leftist posters, broadsides, books, and ephemera, ca. 1964-1970, at Fortnight Institute, opening Thursday, November 9, 2017, 6-8pm and continuing through Friday, December 29, 2017. The display also includes rare, original print materials and posters from the Black Panther Party, White Panther Party, Young Lords and other revolutionary groups. For the duration of the exhibition, Fortnight Institute will also house a reading room stocked with chapbooks and paperbacks from leftist militant poets of the era, many of whose works were printed in Guerrilla, including LeRoi Jones, Diane Di Prima, Margaret Randall, Regis Debray and others.
In conjunction with the exhibition, New York University will host a one-day symposium considering poetry, revolution, and left-wing militancy in America during the late 1960s and in our own time. The event will take place from 2 until 6 pm on Friday November 17th, 2017, followed by an evening of readings, debate, and reflection at the gallery. Participants include music journalist and critic Bill Adler, poet and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, activist David Fenton, poet Umar Bin Hassan, poet and Black Arts Movement co-founder David Henderson, Nuyorican poet Papoleto Melendez, artist and Black Mask/ Up Against The Wall Motherfucker founder Ben Morea, documentary filmmaker Matt Peterson, painter and artist Ellen Phelan, historian Yasmin Ramirez, photographer and White Panther Party member Leni Sinclair, NYU historian Tom Sugrue.
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