Sarah Browning is the co-director of Split This Rock Poetry Festival and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She’s the author of a book of poems, Whiskey in the Garden of Eden, and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology. www.splitthisrock.org
Men who imagined brilliant new freedoms failed to imagine them for enslaved Americans. That means we have to be revolutionary today.
The growing class divide on airplanes feels a lot like America’s.
Slavery still shapes our society.
Sometimes the arc does bend toward justice.
I spotted letters from 14 men and three women on the Sept. 22 Free for All page.
The 500 poets participating in Split This Rock Poetry Festival come from all walks of life and all levels of education and training.
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 poem for the mother of a young man killed by a bomb in Israel.
Poets resist anti-immigration laws with defiance, beauty, and social media.
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.
DC event is part of “100 Thousand Poets for Change” global event with over 600 poetry events across the world.
Al-Mutanabbi Street was once the center of literary life in Baghdad. A new project brings the street back to life.
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
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A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.