The Poetry of Climatic Witness: Slam Poets at United Nations Climate Summits

IF 0.1 4区文学 0 LITERATURE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI:10.3368/cl.62.4.558

Sarah Dimick

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© 2022 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System n September 23, 2014, at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City, the Marshallese spoken word poet Kathy JetñilKijiner stood in front of an audience composed of more than one hundred world leaders and presidents―including the UN SecretaryGeneral, the Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the President of the World Bank Group. She looked out across the assembled representatives, seated behind platinum titles engrained with the names of countries and institutions, and performed a poem addressed to her infant daughter, Matafele Peinam:

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气候见证的诗歌:联合国气候峰会上的诗人

2014年9月23日，在纽约市举行的联合国气候峰会开幕式上，马绍尔口头诗人凯西JetñilKijiner站在由一百多位世界领导人和总统组成的听众面前，其中包括联合国秘书长、政府间气候变化专门委员会主席和世界银行集团行长。她望着聚集在一起的代表们，他们坐在刻有国家和机构名称的白金头衔后面，她朗诵了一首诗，献给她年幼的女儿玛塔菲勒·佩纳姆:

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Literature publishes scholarly essays on contemporary writing in English, interviews with established and emerging authors, and reviews of recent critical books in the field. The journal welcomes articles on multiple genres, including poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, new media and digital literature, and graphic narrative. CL published the first articles on Thomas Pynchon and Susan Howe and the first interviews with Margaret Drabble and Don DeLillo; we also helped to introduce Kazuo Ishiguro, Eavan Boland, and J.M. Coetzee to American readers. As a forum for discussing issues animating the range of contemporary literary studies, CL features the full diversity of critical practices.

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