February
Sunday Kind of Love
Marking
the 10th Anniversary of DC Poets Against the War
Featuring:
Sarah
Browning, Michele Elliott, Yael Flusberg, Leah Harris, Esther Iverem, Joseph
Ross, Melissa Tuckey, and Dan Vera
Sunday
February 17, 2013
5-7pm
Busboys and Poets
NOTE: This event has been moved to the Busboys and Poets location at 5th & K Streets, NW
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
Hosted
by:
Sarah
Browning & Katy Richey
$5
online or at the door
As always, open mic
follows! Bring your poems for peace.
Co-Sponsored by Split This Rock & Busboys and Poets
In
February 2003, millions of people all over the globe took to the
streets to oppose President George W. Bush’s plan to invade Iraq. Poets
responded by organizing a great uprising, Poets Against the War, on
February 12, 2003. Here in DC, Sarah Browning organized an open mic
reading at All Souls Unitarian Church that evening, hoping that poets of
all sorts would join together to speak out for peaceful alternatives.
Sarah didn’t know what to expect, though, as she’d only recently arrived
in the city. To her astonishment, over 175 people turned out, with 60
signing up to read and perform. DC Poets Against the War was born. Five
years later, in 2008, the group presented the first Split This Rock
Poetry Festival, giving birth to a national movement bringing poetry to
the center of public life, where it belongs!
Read more about DC Poets Against the War: http://washingtonart.com/
Join
us on Sunday February 17th as we mark the 10th anniversary of DC Poets
Against the War and mourn the great tragedy of the Iraq War.
Poets who were active in the group will read their own work and the work
and poetry of the missing voices: Iraqi poets, Afghan poets, and
essential poets we've lost since 2003, such as Adrienne Rich, Lucille
Clifton, Grace Paley, and Dennis Brutus.
For more
information:
202-787-5210
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