SNS | 05-27-23
Featuring: Keenan Norris & Propaganda Poet
Theme: The Future
Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday May 27, 2023
6:00pm Pacific Time
(8:00pm Central time)
Online Event
Free Admission
May Writing Prompt:
"The future is made of the same stuff as the present," wrote French philosopher Simone Weil. Do you agree? This month at SNS, your mission is to write into the future.
Stretch your imagination 200 years ahead, or five years, or to tomorrow. Compare to today, or the past, or imagine it newly. You could write speculative fiction, or take on the voice of a fortune teller, a tarot card reader, a newscaster, Nostradamus himself, or write a personal self-reflection or wishlist poem of your most exciting goals. Or think about a younger you, what you thought your future would be like. Does it measure up? How has life surprised you in the present of your former future?
Is your vision of the future apocalyptic or utopian? How does technology, science, medicine, religion, politics burgeon newly (or remain the same) in the future? Consider all the technological advances that have occurred in your own lifetime or your parents’. Think of wars fought, diseases cured, all the information (and misinformation) in the world readily available in a hand-held computer/ phone/ camera/ cookbook/ chess board/ radio/newspaper/ mailbox/ et al.
Are humans kinder and more accepting of each other in the future? Or more divided? Do we still have animals? What about global warming? Genetics? Aliens? Zombies?! AI? Self-driving cars? Space travel? Where will you be in 10 or 20 years? What will you be wearing? What will life be like? What will you miss?
FOR INSPIRATION:
“Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?” poem by Tracy K. Smith (from her award-winning collection Life on Mars)
“The Future,” poem by Neal Bowers
“The Future,” poem by Sandra Lim
“Are We Not Men,” fiction by T. C. Boyle (I read this years ago in The New Yorker and still think of it)
NOTE: Sorry, no pre-SNS Write-In this month. I’m going camping! But I’ll be home to host SNS, and we can write together again next month. " Please check back for details.
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Author Bios
Keenan Norris’s latest novel is The Confession of Copeland Cane, the winner of the 2022 Northern California Book Award. Keenan teaches English and creative writing at San Jose State University. His essays have received the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award and Folio: Eddie Award. Earlier this year he published the biblio-memoir Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings.
Learn more and buy books at: KeenanNorris.com
PropagandaPoet (Bear Wolf) is a Shawnee Gypsy Jew social justice humanist making his triumphant return to California. He sees tattoos as physical manifestations of emotional scars and lost count of his somewhere around twenty. His works include an array of poetry, music, performance and teaching at the collegiate level, including creating and curating the Hearing Marginalized Voices Through Poetry series. Word Tornadoes is his second book of poetry following on the footsteps of his debut book 2020 D//Vision.
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