Red Carnation Poetry Against Fascism
Channel: The League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Date: 2021-04-25

Poetry against Fascism
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Poets and musicians came together virtually, to share their work responding to American fascism. The murder of George Floyd, the January 6 insurrection, and the accelerated efforts at voter suppression underline the reality and growing awareness of fascism in the U.S. This reading/performance, the “Red Carnation International Reading,” is part of an international effort to commemorate the April 25, 1974 overthrow of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in their Carnation Revolution and the ongoing necessary struggle.

Jack Hirschman, who heads the coordinating committee of the World Poetry Movement and works within the San Francisco Revolutionary Poets Brigade, opened the reading and was joined by Portuguese poets Luis Filipe Sarmento and Vamberto Freitas. More than a dozen Chicago and Midwest poets participated, each reading one poem and taking part in a discussion of the role poetry and the arts have in the fight against fascism today.