Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Slam Finals
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.
National Poetry Month 2016 Kickoff: The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller
Join IPS Board Chair E. Ethelbert Miller as he reads from his newly released collection of poems.
Alissa Quart – Monetized In Conversation with Barbara Ehrenreich
A discussion and book signing “reflecting on money, aging, motherhood, work, the Internet, the eighties, nostalgia, journalism, and New York.”
Poetry Database Launch Party and Silent Auction
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!
Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2014
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.
Inaugural Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism
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.
Vultures Over Burma
A poem: To all the men and women who sing change change change Mee-ahn mar–we never heard of you before.
Split This Rock 5th Anniversary Gala
Join IPS, Split This Rock and Richard Blanco, poet of the 2013 Presidential Inauguration, for a mimosa brunch celebration.
What Do They Do?
Would you recognize a torturer if you saw one?
Author Event: Tenuous Chapel
IPS joins Split This Rock to celebrate Melissa Tuckey’s launch of her award-winning first book.
March Sunday Kind of Love
Come out to Split This Rock’s March monthly series, featuring this month Jericho Brown and Remica Bingham.
A “Boy Afraid of Being a Boy” as Inaugural Poet?
Sometimes the arc does bend toward justice.
The Nail-Biter that Wasn’t
Voters knew just what to do.
Smaller than a Mouse
Why does the media treat a dead mouse as more important than an anti-war protest?
Obama, Give me Five!
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.