Christopher Myers kalyban of #Cartography leads a creativity workshop at @NYUADArtsCenter with young poets from the moe_uaestudents #Masterpieces program before the final performance at @NYUAbuDhabi. Translations by… instagram.com/p/B8izE_SJttO/…
The conversation focuses on cultural memory and the role of poetry in shaping monuments to memories and what we’re trying to hold.
What will most poets say are the most important things in the world? asks Christopher Myers. He suggests that often, poets will argue for poetry as being that thing. (Even if behind the scenes, they are talking about money).
If poems are monuments, many artists make monuments to themselves.
Christopher Myers @kalyban gives praise to the young poets of Masterpieces for their strong performances. And points out how their poems about the sea draw from long tropes of travel
A poem is one of the few things your family can give you...it carries on” - Christopher Myers talks about what it means to be a poet who is a child of a poet.
Many of the students share poems they wrote about Sheikh Zayed, opening a discussion about how choices of symbols and metaphor give a deeper sense of who he was and why he was important. Celebrating books and education to emphasize values.
More discussions of the particular challenges of being a poet whose parents are poets. How can you live up to their standards, and assert your own voice?
You can make monuments to great people, and you can make poems as monuments to family and loved ones, elegies of loss.
If you think of every poem as a monument, as an architecture to someone, an elegy can also become an architecture around lisa. A map as to how to feel and think about it.
The poems the youth are sharing that they wrote have different rhythms from the rhythms of older poems. Embrace the rhythm of your own language, your own generation
Conversation about the importance of strong structures. It’s best to know the rules before you break them.
When a nation is young, you need poets. That’s how you build a nation - @kalyban Christopher Myers to @MOEducationUAE #Masterpieces students.
I also love a poem that’s about beauty. About admiration. And about building monuments to the things we can all relate too also.
When people act, they say there are 3 circles. Talking to 1000 people is talking in 3rd circle. When I’m talking to my friends, I might be talking to 2nd circle. Talking to one person or small group. The first circle is when you’re talking to yourself, or talking to God.
One thing you can hear in the poems is what circle the poets are talking to. It affects the delivery, and the choice of language.
Your job as a young poet is to read poems. If we are building the memories of our nation, our job is to see how other nations have built their own. - @kalyban
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