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It opens with participants collectively pulling out the archive, reading and scanning materials together, followed by readings from the archive and then from two contemporary poets, Lila Matsumoto and Sarah Riggs. The collection features historical and contemporary dissident, heretical, non-conformist and revolutionary poetries, and the series invites people to congregate and discuss these texts. 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