Carlos Price-Sanchez
Undergraduate, English & Earth and Environmental Science
PPEH Fellow 2017-2018
2017 - 2018
Carlos Price-Sanchez is a Philadelphia poet majoring and submatriculating in English and Creative Writing, as well as minoring in Environmental Science. His work deals with the ecology of aesthetics, focusing on the ways in which felicitous poetic-space interacts with built environments (waste lines, landfills, filled in streams), organic bodies (both human and nonhuman), and global identity politics. He is currently working on a collaborative poetic mapping of the buried stream beds surrounding Philadelphia. He hopes to examine how our interactions with suppressed ancient landscape disseminate into problems of socioeconomic segregation, as well as explore the utility of the poetic as a prosthesis for contending with the ramifications of living within “risk space