Archival Poetics Manifesto

Archival Poetics and the War on Memory (Naropa University, 2012) is a panel discussion about the conditions that produce, sustain and delimit archives, and how these processes are intrinsically connected to (or born out of) poetics and creative practice. The panel included a talk from Stacy Szymaszek where she shared her Archival Poetics Manifesto, which I wasn’t able to find it on the web. Since it’s 14 years old at this point, I thought it I’d make it more searchable with a pointer to the recording. Archival Poetics Manifesto by Stacy Szymaszek I, the poet, as subversive strategy, leave behind evidence of my day-to-day production. I, the poet, contend with fear, aphasia, and tendency to forget in order to claim my unclaimed experience, which is one definition of trauma. Poem as archive, where I claim my experience, where I store my data. I, the poet, in order to tell my story, take on the identity of others, refuse a temporally fixed past. I, the poet, as Hart Crane, Ann Pasolini,…