Meanwhile on Campus…
On Monday, April 6, the CU Creative Writing Association with support from the CU Cultural Event Board and the CU English Department collaborated to put on a reading and panel featuring three talented and inspirational poets. The show was titled, “Code Switching and Recoding Language,” in which the three presenters expressed powerful words and images that depicted the struggles that cultural differences and binary breakers face. These performers highlighted the issues of oppression that stem from the lack of acceptance, expressed stereotypes and general lack of knowledge and education that many American’s represent today. The three performers, Cathy Linh Che, Jennifer Tamayo and Mykki Blanco, all used poetry in order to explain the oppression that each of them have experienced in relation to their own differences.
Cathy Linh Che’s poems were powerful and personal; her words painted a picture for the audience of what life was like for her parents, Vietnam war survivors and immigrants, and the affect that their bravery and courage has had on her life in America. She interwined the Vietnamese language, and expressed the contrasts between the Vietnam culture and American culture. She also brought to life the horrors experiences by her parents and by the Vietnam …read more
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