DC Scores Profiles Split This Rock Youth Coordinator Jonathan Tucker

DC Scores interviews Split This Rock Coordinator, local poet, and activist Jonathan Tucker. Click on the link below to read the interview.

If you are not taking risks with your poetry and your activism, then you will not make the great changes you desire

Venus Thrash Profiled in the Examiner

The Examiner has given us more love by featuring yet another one of our poets! Venus Thrash, a featured reader for the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival, has been profiled by the Examiner. Read the interview here.

Split This Rock Featured Poet Jose Padua in the Examiner

Jose Padua, a 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival featured poet, receives a special shout out from the Examiner. Check it out here.

Petition to Restore Art Funding

Support the DC Commission on the Arts and the Humanities and sign the petition to restore art funding. This year the art budget is only 0.034%. Ask Mayor Gray to help increase funding, and bring the arts back into DC. Sign here and show your support.

JoAnne Growney's Take on Poetry, Math, and Featured Minnie Bruce Pratt

JoAnne Growney blogs on poetry, mathematics, and featured poet Minnie Bruce Pratt! The poem "Someone is Up," as well as two other pieces, will be seen in the current issue of Beloit Poetry Journal. Check it out and support Split This Rock!

Moe Ma Kha Plant

Moe Ma Kha Plant was written by dissident Burmese poet Naing Win Swe, and edited by our very own, Melissa Tuckey, co-founder of Split This Rock. Read the rest of this inspiring poem here.

Get Your Beautiful Split This Rock Notebook

Notebooks will be on sale at Split This Rock festival and at the AWP table N 7. Only $10.00. Check out the beautiful Alicia composing in her very own Split This Rock notebook!