Poetry has a history of getting people in trouble. Throughout time, poetry has been suppressed and poets persecuted for not writing the party line. This showcase gives voice to the outcasts and the cast out, the identity-torn seeking belonging, and the otherwise outlawed. By questioning the status quo and our place within it, these video poems reveal disruptive truths. To all poets who persist, who write rebellion, who reject silence and speak out—it can be dangerous, but we are many and poetry provides us refuge.

(76 min TRT)

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Header photo credit: The Light That Burns Us, dir. Jazra Khaleed, Silvia Tsompanaki

Showcase title credit: Eve, poet Meghan Plunkett, animator Miranda Javid