Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism 2017
Please join Split This Rock and The CrossCurrents Foundation for an inspiring reception, ceremony, and reading.
Fifth Split This Rock Poetry Festival Presents Nation’s Most Acclaimed Poets
Special Kick-Off Event with U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2016
Join one of IPS’s closest allies, Split This Rock, for a four-day festival celebrating poetry of witness and resistance, featuring some of the most visionary voices of our time.
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.
Author Event: Tenuous Chapel
IPS joins Split This Rock to celebrate Melissa Tuckey’s launch of her award-winning first book.
Pomegranate Means Grenade
Identify war by what it takes away.
The 36th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards Ceremony
Join us for our annual awards event to honor our fallen colleagues while celebrating new heroes of the human rights movement from the United States and from Chile.
The Humanity of Poetry
The 500 poets participating in Split This Rock Poetry Festival come from all walks of life and all levels of education and training.
Media Advisory Poem: Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness Brings Poetry of the 99% to Nation’s Capital
Split This Rock is coming soon!
A poetry festival to make you swoon.
March twenty-second through twenty-fifth
Poems by and for the ninety-nine percent.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Yael Flusberg
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Split This Rock’s 2010 Holiday Shopping Guide
Need a gift idea? Check out these books that matter!
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.