Here on the Front Range we have been howling. At 8pm each night it begins as the sound ripples through the neighborhood. Even amid the late Spring/ early Summer thunderstorms we’re famous for, we hear the howling amid the thunderous roar that the rain brings and shuts us inside.  

In the wild, howling brings the pack together, creates cohesion in disunity; “is a passionate verbal outburst” (Audre Lorde). As creatives, we know something of the HOWL as a lonesome diphthong for despair, but also embodied joy. To embrace this dual monism is a subtle signaling of our ecology.  

We’d like to use this missive as a kind of howl, to be together in Spirit as we hold an online version of Summer Writing Program, for which we can only do for Naropa students.  

We’re calling it Carrier Waves named after the high frequency waves that often accompany input signal, but go largely undetected, and yet carry information, waves that bear a subtle transmission… So while we’re riding this frequency, we invite you to read along with us from these two texts:

Letters to the Future: Black Women  / Radical Writing | ed. Erica Hunt & Dawn Lundy Martin

Dream of Europe: selected seminars and interviews 1984-1992 |  By Audre Lorde and Mayra Rodriguez Castro (Editor)

For the month of June, we also want to share offerings from our archive — as a kind of input signal —  that address the themes for Sanctuary & Apocalypse which is rescheduled for 2020. Follow @kerouacschool on IG–FB–Twitter for the daily offering in the archive series.  We’d also love to see and hear from you  in the ways you are staying busy this Summer in the freedom of your imagination. Tag us with #NaropaSWP #FortheArchive #KeeptheWorldSafeforPoetry.

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	Sanctuary + Apocalypse
	{And so it began…}
1-Jun	Gaelic Women’s Poetry
2-Jun	Kali Yuga Poetics
3-Jun	Uncertainty as Generative Mode
4-Jun	Creative Writing
5-Jun	Panel on Rocky Flats
6-Jun	Conversation at Supper
7-Jun	Pt. I Utopian Poetics
	Pt. 2 Utopian Poetics
	Oracles & Cyborgs
8-Jun	Pt. I — 6PM Oracles: An Agenda for the “Found Generation.”
	Pt. 2 — 6PM Oracles: An Agenda for the “Found Generation.”
9-Jun	Technology as Muse: Are You a Cyborg?
10-Jun	Other Overcoming Otherness: A Poetics of Fragments, illegible Gestures, and Smudged Texts
11-Jun	Ordinary Magic: A Talk with Anne Waldman
12-Jun	SWP Faculty Reading
13-Jun	Life Without Technology
14-Jun	Contemporary Lineages: The Collective Voyeur
	Now Time & The Coming Community
15-Jun	Pt. I Beyond Hope and Fear Peace Conference – Opening Panel: Strategies for Peace Making: Social Action
	Pt. 2 Beyond Hope and Fear Peace Conference – Opening Panel: Strategies for Peace Making: Social Action
16-Jun	Racial Identity and its Literary Representation
17-Jun	How to See Through Poetry: Myth, Perception and History
18-Jun	The Black Arts Movement
19-Jun	Poetry & Performance, Theater & video
20-Jun	Lineage, History, and Anxiety of Influence
21-Jun	Bonds of Civilization
	Insurrectionary Forms, Revolutionary Lineages
22-Jun	Poetry and Emergency: Some Compass Points for Ecopoetics
23-Jun	Ecopoetics: As Invisible to Us as Water is to Fish
24-Jun	Wild Forms
25-Jun	Great Divides and Common Grounds
26-Jun	2 Billion Years of Animal Sounds
27-Jun	Continuing the Discourse: Engagements with Biography, Language, Visual Arts, and Other Extracurricular Projects
28-Jun	Archival Poetics & The War on Memory
	Encore
29-Jun	Antidotes to Violence
30-Jun	To be the Imaginary in July: Verbs and Epitomes