Join Split This Rock and Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, as we give voice to some of those poets for one day. We’ll take a short walk to the embassies of three countries — Yemen, Burma,… and Turkmenistan — where citizens have no right to free speech, where poets, writers, and other freedom lovers have been threatened, arrested, and murdered for their words and their activism.
Global warming comes on the wings of grasshoppers.
Global warming arrives on the wings of grasshoppers.
Join the Institute for Policy Studies and the Letelier Theater for this special screening of Nostalgia For The Light, preceded by rich cultural performances. This event is a fitting lead-up to IPS’ annual Letelier Moffitt Human Rights Awards ceremony on October 12th, the following week.
Gaza is for resilience, writes the poet, Gaza is for people thicker than stone.
The first to recognize literature’s power are the tyrants themselves.
Al-Mutanabbi Street was once the center of literary life in Baghdad. A new project brings the street back to life.
A poet reaches out to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents ‘Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here’, a collection of 130 broadsides celebrating our collective cultural voice and representing the deaths and injuries of the March 2007 car bomb on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad.
In Mun Dok-su’s epic poem, a postman travels through the history of war to deliver an important message to humanity.
We have become inured to war.
A poem about the theater of cruelty that was Abu Ghraib.
Margit Berman’s poem about the day the president decided to end the wars.
Join us as over 20 poets lend their energy and language to a group reading in response to Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and in resistance to the atmosphere of national xenophobia under which the bill (and its emerging counterparts) were created.
Come to a critical mass gathering for a show of unity in opposition to U.S. Wars and Occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. A minute of silence will be observed for each year of each war (sixteen minutes), followed by our simultaneous reading of lines of poetry (probably lines from Whitman).