I’m pleased to help spread the word about this unique and
amazing DC-based festival, Split This Rock, which will take place in DC March
27-30, 2014:
Split This Rock Poetry Festival is DC's premiere poetry
event and the only festival of its kind the country, highlighting poets working
at the intersection of the imagination and social change.
The festival features readings, workshops, panel
discussions, youth programming, open mics, activism -- opportunities for
participants to speak out for justice, build connection and community, and
celebrate the many ways poetry can act as an agent for social change.
Poets to be featured at the festival are among the most
significant and artistically vibrant writing and performing today: Sheila
Black, Franny Choi, Eduardo C. Corral, Gayle Danley, Natalie Diaz, Joy Harjo,
Maria Melendez Kelson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dunya Mikhail, Shailja Patel, Wang
Ping, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Myra Sklarew, Danez Smith, and Anne
Waldman.
Registration rates:
Early-bird: $85
After 2/1/13: $120
Student: $45
Scholarships and group rates are available.
The festival will take place at venues throughout the
Farragut Square neighborhood, with featured readings in the Grosvenor
Auditorium of the National Geographic headquarters and panels and workshops at
the Sumner School, the Wilderness Society, the Human Rights Campaign, and the
AFL-CIO.
Major partners are Busboys and Poets, the Institute for
Policy Studies, and Teaching for Change.
For registration and more information: www.SplitThisRock.org
Split This Rock calls poets to the center of public life and
fosters a national network of socially engaged poets. Its programs integrate
poetry into public life and support the poets of all ages who write and perform
this essential work. It has been chosen as "one of the best"
community-based charities in the DC area by the Catalogue for Philanthropy.
Split This Rock Poetry Festival is made possible in part by
the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, the National Endowment for the
Arts, and the Open Society, Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz, and Nathan Cummings
Foundations. Festival co-sponsors include the Human Rights Campaign, the
Jimenez Porter Writers House of the University of Maryland, Letras Latinas, and
the Wilderness Society.
