TRANSCENDENTALISTS Transcendentalists Era poems were offered by a cohort of The Peoples Church of Flint and literary consultant to the Poetry Pod Project, Darolyn Brown. David Thoreau concerns loom large today. Poetry is a historical document. Evident are the parallel threads of social problems, and joys that persist to this day.
POETRY PODSHIP LANDS IN 1820 | NEW ENGLAND TRANSCENDENTALISTS PRESENTED BY FLINT’S FIRST POET LAUREATE SEMAJ BROWN AND PEOPLES CHURCH OF FLINT Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday, rather than believing in a distant heaven. Transcendentalists saw physical and spiritual phenomena as part of dynamic processes rather than discrete entities.
Darolyn Brown | Literary Consultant
Linda Angus | Peoples Church of Flint
Semaj Brown | Flint’s Inaugural Poet Laureate
Transcendentalists were abolitionists, and believed in equal rights for women and were concerned with the environment. TAKE THE P3 PODSHIP TO 1820S NEW ENGLAND
FLINT POET LAUREATE REPORT | SUMMER 2022
Tom Travis | Peoples Church of Flint
John Elwee | Peoples Church of Flint
