Bribing Israel: Enhancing the Swag
What’s supposed to be the main point of it all — new negotiations leading to something remotely resembling a just, lasting and comprehensive peace — is simply not on the agenda of either Israel or the U.S.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: E. Ethelbert Miller
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Naomi Ayala
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Jaime Lee Jarvis
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Conference: Local Action, Global Impact
The Women’s Donor Network network of like-minded women, who combine the benefits of a nurturing social community with timely and relevant education, fast-response, high-impact collaborations, and strategic philanthropic initiatives.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Mark Doty’s “Charlie Howard’s Descent”
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Holly Bass
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
One Nation: Uniting for Jobs, Not War
At the historic One Nation Working Together march, activists made the connection between unemployment and our outsize military budget.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Jeff Gundy
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Kenneth Carroll
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Sunday Kind of Love with Brenda Hillman
Sunday Kind of Love is hosted by Sarah Browning and Katy Richey, and co-sponsored by DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Busboys and Poets, and Split This Rock. It takes place on the 3rd Sunday of every month. This month the first hour will feature readings by Brenda Hillman followed by the open mike. Admission is FREE; donations are encouraged and are split between the featured poets and Busboys’ amazing wait staff. Also this month’s event will be preceded by a Craft Workshop with Brenda Hillman at IPS in the conference room, from noon until 2:30.
Hikers in Iran
The three U.S. hikers seized by the Iranian government are progressive activists, and the progressive community should demand their release.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Jody Bolz
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Review: ‘I Go to the Ruined Place’
These contemporary poems in defense of global human rights give voice to the dead, the dying, and the degraded.
Benefit Event for Louisiana Bucket Brigade
We know the power of poetry to demand change and to heal our world. On July 31, at Eatonville restaurant, we will be using that power to throw a benefit for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a grassroots 501(c)3 environmental health and justice organization that has been helping residents living near Louisiana refineries fight air pollution for years, and is now helping them track and respond to the BP Oil Disaster that is ravaging the Gulf.