Join Split This Rock at AWP in Seattle
February 27-March 1, 2014
Table BB38
2 Conference Presentations
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| Splitistas Katy Richey & Jonathan B. Tucker sporting their 2012 festival T shirts at AWP 2013 |
We hope to see many friends at the annual conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), February 27-March 1, in Seattle.
Split This Rock will be at Table BB38 in the bookfair with haiku post cards to president Obama and a drawing for a free festival registration.
We'll also be presenting two official conference programs: A 2014 festival preview reading with Natalie Diaz, Danez Smith, Patricia Smith, and Wang Ping on Saturday at noon and an interactive workshop on Thursday at 1:30 pm on "Engaging Youth with Slam Poetry and Spoken Word," with Elizabeth Acevedo, Josh Healey, Pages Matam, and Jonathan Tucker.
Read on for more details. Poetry is everywhere!
Visit us at Table BB38
Splitistas -- like the two friendly and brilliant ones pictured above -- will be on hand to meet you and tell you more about our efforts to bring poetry to the center of public life - where it belongs! Stop by to write a Haiku Post Card to President Obama and to enter a drawing for a free registration to Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2014.
Two Split This Rock Conference Presentations
Intense/Beautiful/Devoted:
Poems of Provocation & Witness
Saturday, March 1, noon-1:15 pm
Room 301, Western New England MFA Annex, Level 3
Sarah Browning, Natalie Diaz, Danez Smith, Patricia Smith, Wang Ping
Leonard Bernstein wrote, "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." Poets today are looking without flinching at our world of drones, evictions, gun shows, and violence to the earth, as they tell the many stories of our lives. Happily, too, they are imagining alternatives and provoking change. A reading of intense and striking music, in the spirit of Split This Rock, with Patricia Smith providing opening remarks.
Engaging Youth with Slam Poetry and Spoken Word
Thursday, February 27, 1:30-2:45 pm
Room 604, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6
Pages Matam, Jonathan Tucker, Josh Healey, Elizabeth Acevedo
As performance poetry and slam competition grows in popularity, many organizations are using the energetic and entertaining format of slam to engage, inspire, and motivate young students. In this interactive workshop, leading youth workers will discuss the benefits and challenges of slam poetry programs and facilitate dialogue among participants about best practices and how to reach and motivate more students using poetry.
The full conference program and schedule are here.
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