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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Attend an exciting evening with actor, director and activist Danny Glover, United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, an art exhibit, poerty music and more, all in support of freeing the Cuban 5 and normalizing U.S.-Cuba relations.
Come out to Split This Rock's March monthly series, featuring this month Jericho Brown and Remica Bingham.
IPS joins Split This Rock to celebrate Melissa Tuckey's launch of her award-winning first book.
Join IPS, Split This Rock and Richard Blanco, poet of the 2013 Presidential Inauguration, for a mimosa brunch celebration.
Join IPS, Split This Rock and The CrossCurrents Foundation in recognizing Eliza Griswold for her work collecting and introducing the folk poems of Afghan women to America.
Come to Poems of Provocation & Witness 2014 with poets, writers, activists, and dreamers coming to Washington, DC for four days of poetry, community building, and creative transformation.
The Institute for Policy Studies is a proud co-sponsor of Split This Rocks' celebration featuring DJ Phenomejon, poetry readings and performances, a demonstration of the database, and a silent auction!
A discussion and book signing "reflecting on money, aging, motherhood, work, the Internet, the eighties, nostalgia, journalism, and New York."
Join IPS Board Chair E. Ethelbert Miller as he reads from his newly released collection of poems.
Join IPS ally Split This Rock at the 2016 finals of their teen poetry slam showdown where one team will be crowned the LTAB champions.