Speakers Forum

Lyric World presents the celebrated poet Arthur Sze

How to unmake a man-made global disaster

‘I was trying not to be the subject of someone else’s poetry and not to get killed.’

How the acclaimed writer and investigative journalist saw it coming

On suffering and surviving the slings and arrows of a woman leader’s fortune

White women explore epistemic injustice and healing wisdom

‘America doesn’t have a race problem. It has a racism problem.’

‘Class blindness is the tendency for people with social class privilege to be unaware or blind to their advantages.’ -Professor Jennifer Sherman

Poet Yona Harvey on arrivals, departures, and renewals

‘I think both of us realize that you don’t get anywhere by staying in your corners and being completely polarized. We just know that the more we communicate and talk about things the better it will be, even if we’re not on the same page.’