This is extremely disturbing - take note, poets -
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From: Michael Kelleher <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:43:06 -0500
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Subject: Campus Watch Attacks Poet
Dear Poets,
Campus Watch, the right wing hate site devoted to destroying the reputations
and careers of left-leaning professors, specifically those in Middle Eastern
Studies Departments, has attacked one of our own: poet, translator and
scholar Ammiel Alcalay. Unique to this particular piece is the fact that
they attack him at least as much for his poetry as they do for his views on
Israeli-American-Arab geopolitical relations. In effect, this is an attack
on the right of poets to speak politically in the public sphere. Other poets
mentioned as suspicious in the article include Anne Waldman, Joseph Safdie,
Amiri Baraka, Marylin Hacker, Alicia Ostriker, and Tom Paulin.
As you will see, the article also includes an exhaustive list of Ammiel's
institutional affiliations. The purpose of this is to scare institutions
away from associating themselves with those who speak out against American
and/or Israeli foreign policy. Poets should speak out against these vicious
attacks and should implore the institutions mentioned in the article -- City
University of New York, St. Mark's Poetry Project, Beyond Barque, Cornell
University, Duke University, and others -- to publicly support Prof. Alcalay
before this escalates into another Amiri Baraka or Ward Churchill type
affair.
Here's the link:
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1706
Sincerely,
Mike Kelleher
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