Showing posts with label Split This Rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Split This Rock. Show all posts
Monday, August 28, 2023

Hunger -- portrayed in poetry and numbers

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       Since 2003,   SPLIT THIS ROCK  has been an activist poetry organization   that protests war and injustice.   Besides readings and con...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Prove it . . .

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This post's title "Prove it" occurs several times within the poem, DREAMers Mark Themselves        by Maricielo Ampudia ...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Split This Rock Poetry Festival, April 19-21, 2018

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For poems and poets that speak out FOR rights, AGAINST injustice,  attend the biennial SPLIT THIS ROCK Poetry Festival! Festival info...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Poems that count: Eight Buffalo

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     In mid-April at the Split This Rock Poetry Festival, one of the sessions I attended and valued had the title " "Eco-Feminis...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Counting into the Future . . .

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     Remember that you have only until November 1 to submit a winning "poem of provocation and witness" to the Split This Rock Poe...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Can poetry change the climate for frogs?

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      Poems affect our spirits as well as our minds. And Split This Rock is looking for poems that protest and witness, world-changing poem...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

And Now I See . . .

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     One of the ways we overcome our nervous shyness about our disabilities is by talking about them, and writing about them.  And by encoun...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Two-line poems -- Landays -- from Afghanistan

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Celebrate Activist Poetry -- At Nov. 1 Event BE THERE on November 1, 2013 at the Goethe-Intitut in Washington DC when poet and journal...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Start with a number . . .

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     April celebrates both poetry and mathematics -- this month that is the gateway to spring is also National Poetry Month and Mathematic...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Poems with Numbers

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      Hats off to the organizers and presenters at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival held in DC this past weekend.  Great poets, gr...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Langston Hughes could do anything!

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In the 1970s when I was a new professor (at Pennsylvania's Bloomsburg University), a particular colleague and I would chat occasionally ...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival -- March 22-25

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Earlybird registration ends February 22 for the 2012 Split this Rock Poetry Festival in Washington, DC, March 22-25.  Honoring poet June Jo...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

Strength from Numbers

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During March 22-25, 2012, the third Split This Rock Poetry Festival:  Poems of Provocation and Witness will be held in Washington, DC. This...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Continuing Climate Concerns

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     Split This Rock , an activist confederation of poets concerned with vital human issues, has directed attention to environmental concern...