So we pick up the next class at the beginning, as far back as we can go to find our American poetry cousins, those ancient petroglyph-writers in the American Southwest.

How can we think about writing before the quote-unquote Written Record, an era which begins in American with the Spanish Colonial period?

What does writing even mean? And who gets to “write” in public spaces?

These are the kinds questions we cover in this PodClass as we go back in the time-machine to the 1300s to look at prehistoric Native American and Spanish Colonial petroglyphs and even some modern efforts at rock writing.

 

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