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Can Fiction Matter? Reflections on Street LitSeptember 22, 2005I take my title, of course, from NEA chair Dana Gioia's Can Poetry Matter?, an elegant defense of literature as an act of engagement. But aside from the pleasure or insight rendered (for many of us enough), can a poem or novel really make a difference: change a life, stop a crime, start a revolution? Yes, I learned this summer when I intoduced "Street Lit," a FOLUSA panel at this year's ALA featuring Y. Blak Moore, Darren Coleman, Mister Mann Frisby, and K'Wan. Each of these men is a distinctive writer--there's always a danger in using labels like Street Lit, though in this case it has served admirably to draw in readers who might otherwise find books not terribly relevant. But along with a tendency toward frank and gritty subject matter and language, these authors share a truly infectious enthusiasm, an acknowledgment that reading made in difference in their young lives and that writing rescued their older selves from sometimes harrowing circumstances. Posted by on September 22, 2005 | Comments (32)
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