Engaged Poetry - Ralph Nazareth

Politics, po-etics, egaged poetry, and Curley's Diner - part of a conversation with poet, activist and professor Ralph Nazareth recorded for Bent Pin - http://www.BentPin.net

Ralph Nazareth is a professor of English at Nassau Community College, New York, where he leads PeaceWork, a group committed to peace and justice issues. He is also a volunteer teacher of writing in the CMHS program at Green Haven, a maximum security prison in New York. As Managing Editor of Yuganta Press in Stamford, CT, he has overseen the publication of over twenty books of poetry by writers from all over the world. Ralph Nazareth was born and educated in India. He crossed over to the West when young Americans were flying east to Vietnam. His poetry explores his movement between worlds.

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