About angels IX
It’s man versus butterfly in this poem about the competing demands of nature and economy.
Interview with Homero Aridjis
The Mexican poet speaks of his deep involvement in nature and literature.
The Humanity of Poetry
The 500 poets participating in Split This Rock Poetry Festival come from all walks of life and all levels of education and training.
Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2012
Split This Rock offers participants opportunities to speak out, make common cause, and explore the many ways poets are working for change through their writing, activism, and community work.
To the Valley in the Morning with Blood and Guts and Fear
When there’s war all the time, there’s no such thing as
after the war anymore.
Media Advisory Poem: Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness Brings Poetry of the 99% to Nation’s Capital
Split This Rock is coming soon!
A poetry festival to make you swoon.
March twenty-second through twenty-fifth
Poems by and for the ninety-nine percent.
Where
A poem about Gaza asks whether there is a poem in Gaza that hasn’t been written?
Blog for Choice 2012: To Sever the Stitch of Shame
To say that the issue of abortion excites strong feelings is to state the obvious. But abortion also inspires complex feeling, especially for women. A perfect vehicle for carrying all this challenging, raging, nuanced emotion: poetry.
A Brief History of the Number Two
A poem for the mother of a young man killed by a bomb in Israel.
A Hakka Man Farms Rare Earth in South China
What lies beneath the rare earth metals that the world so covets?
Poem: Before Grey Filtered Light
Originally published in Counterpunch.
Poets Stand Up
On the Walk of Shame, poets visit the embassies of Burma, Yemen, and Turkmenistan to read aloud the poems that can’t be read inside those countries.
The Undocumented Poet
A fellow UCLA DREAMer joins our special screening of Nostalgia for the Light this Thursday.
Vendetta, May 2006
Politicians wage war, rages the poet, but they don’t pay the price.
Washington DC Poets Engage in “Walk of Shame” to Embassies of Countries Where Poetry is Banished
DC event is part of “100 Thousand Poets for Change” global event with over 600 poetry events across the world.