#SplitThisRock2018 Sessions: International Perspectives

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness 2018 invites poets, writers, activists, and dreamers to Washington, DC for three days of poetry, community building, and creative transformation. The festival features readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, parties, activism—opportunities to speak out for justice, build connection and community, and celebrate the many ways poetry can act as an agent for social change.

On-site registration is available every day during the festival at the festival hub: National Housing Center, 1201 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005. A sliding scale of fees is available for full registration, beginning at $200. Student registration (with ID) is $75. One day passes are $85. Two-day passes are $170. 

Full festival schedule with session descriptions is available on the website. The Festival Mobile App is Live! Download the free app  for iOS and Android today for easy access to the schedule, session descriptions, presenter bios, and more! Just search your app store for Split This Rock. 

We are pleased to present a selection of sessions on the themes of international issues and connections.

Crossing Borders Before and After Now (Panel)
Presenters: Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Sonia Guiñansaca, Barbara Jane Reyes, 
Javier Zamora
Thursday, April 19, 11 am - 12:30 pm
American Association of University Women Room 1

Quitting History! Poets Penning Liberation (Reading)

Presenters: Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Shauna M. Morgan, Enzo Silon Surin

Thursday, April 19, 11 am - 12:30 pm
Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives Room 102 

Arabic/English Poetry Game Workshop (Workshop)
Presenters: Zein El-Amine, Yael Flusberg, Johnna Schmidt
Thursday, April 19, 1:30 - 3 pm
American Association of University Women Room 2

Poetics of the Veteran Art Movement: Warrior Writers/Combat Paper (Panel)
Presenters: Kevin Basl, Lovella Calica, Anthony Torres

Thursday, April 19, 1:30 - 3 pm
National Housing Center Room B

Translators as Activists, Curators, and Cultural Interpreters (Panel)
Presenters: Francisco Aragón, Ilya Kaminsky, Aviya Kushner, Olga Livshin,
Katherine Young
Thursday, April 19, 3:30 pm - 5 pm
National Housing Center Room B

Riding Through Despair (Panel)
Presenters: Anna Deeny Morales, Leeya Mehta, Vivek Narayanan, John Rosenwald,
Marc Vincenz 
Friday, April 20, 11 am - 12:30 pm
National Housing Center Room C

Dreaming America: Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Prison (Panel)
Presenter: Seth Michelson
Friday, April 20, 1:30 - 3 pm
National Housing Center Room C

Sheyr Jangi: Lineages of Survival (Reading)
Presenters: Majda Gama, Rami Karim, Aurora Masum-Javed, Sahar Muradi, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, Zohra Saed, Purvi Shah

Friday, April 20, 3:30 - 5 pm
National Housing Center Room B

Reciting Poetry in Minefields: Co-translating Young Iraqi Poets (Reading)
Presenters: Abbas Kadhim and David Allen Sullivan
Saturday, April 21, 11 am - 12:30 pm
National Housing Center Room A

Poets at the Borderlands of Change: Celebrating Gloria Anzaldúa (Reading)
Presenters: Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Tara Betts, Sarah A. Chavez, Olga García Echeverría, Miguel M. Morales, Dan Vera
Saturday, April 21, 1:30 - 3 pm
Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives Room 102