Hakim Bellamy - Growing the Creative Core
Channel: NewMexicoMercury
Date: 2014-02-26

Hakim Bellamy, poet, teacher and youth organizer, asks not what the city can do for poets, but what can poetry do for the city.  From the words of renowned Canadian writer Margaret Atwood to the images of visionary architect Luc Scuhiten (Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels), he shares examples of poetry in motion, in practice and in planning. The future can look very different if we think of poetry as a "before," as opposed to an "after."