Erica Hunt & James Sherry January 23, 2008

Erica Hunt works at the forefront of experimental poetry and poetics, critical race theory, and feminist aesthetics. She has written three books of poetry: Arcade, with artist Alison Saar, Piece Logic, and Local History. Hunt has also worked as a housing organizer, radio producer, poetry teacher, and program officer for a social justice campaign. She is currently president of The Twenty-First Century Foundation. James Sherry is the author of ten books of poetry and criticism. He is the editor of Roof Books and runs the Segue Foundation in NYC. For the past 10 years he has been involved with theoretical environmentalism and has been writing extensively on the subject of poetry and the environment.

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