Showing posts with label Poetry in the streets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry in the streets. Show all posts
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Poetry In The Streets: Torn Between Bitterness and Hope, Poets Bring Inspiration to Our Nation's Lawmakers
Take Poetry to the Capitol
Today at 4:30 on the Upper Senate Park at the U.S. Capitol Grounds
The United States has now spent $1 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, our public schools and universities are facing massive cuts, millions of Americans are without health care, the earth is desperate for loving attention. Clearly, our lawmakers need the poets to tell them how to spend the next $1 trillion.
Come with a twelve word line of poetry (by you or by someone else) that expresses your vision for the future of our country and our planet. We will create and read aloud a collaborative Cento poem, which will begin with these lines sent to us by Adrienne Rich, from “An Atlas of the Difficult World”:
I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn
between bitterness and hope
turning back once again to the task you cannot refuse ...
Write or type your line on a piece of paper. Include the name of the poet, your name (if different), and your home town.
Feel free to bring signs, but no poles bigger than 3⁄4" around and no signs offering anything for sale.
We will meet at Upper Senate Park, near Union Station, on Metro’s Red line (Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter on the Green/Yellow lines).
The #96 bus leaves from the northwest corner of U and 14th Street NW and goes right to the park, stopping at the corner of D Street NW and Louisiana Avenue NW.
Click here for a map.
Click here to read the Cento from the 2008 Festival!
Today at 4:30 on the Upper Senate Park at the U.S. Capitol Grounds
The United States has now spent $1 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, our public schools and universities are facing massive cuts, millions of Americans are without health care, the earth is desperate for loving attention. Clearly, our lawmakers need the poets to tell them how to spend the next $1 trillion.
Come with a twelve word line of poetry (by you or by someone else) that expresses your vision for the future of our country and our planet. We will create and read aloud a collaborative Cento poem, which will begin with these lines sent to us by Adrienne Rich, from “An Atlas of the Difficult World”:
I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn
between bitterness and hope
turning back once again to the task you cannot refuse ...
Write or type your line on a piece of paper. Include the name of the poet, your name (if different), and your home town.
Feel free to bring signs, but no poles bigger than 3⁄4" around and no signs offering anything for sale.
We will meet at Upper Senate Park, near Union Station, on Metro’s Red line (Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter on the Green/Yellow lines).
The #96 bus leaves from the northwest corner of U and 14th Street NW and goes right to the park, stopping at the corner of D Street NW and Louisiana Avenue NW.
Click here for a map.
Click here to read the Cento from the 2008 Festival!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Festival Highlight: Poetry In the Streets and Social Change Book Fair
Don't forget two big public events at the Split This Rock Festival.
Poetry In The Streets: Torn Between Bitterness and Hope, Poets Bring Inspiration
to Our Nation's Lawmakers
Thursday, March 11 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Upper Senate Park, U.S. Capitol Grounds.
Check out the Facebook Event page or the Split This Rock schedule for more details!
Social Change Book Fair
Saturday, March 13 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage, 1816 12th Street NW
Exhibitors include:
Exhibitors:
* Collective to Open a Radical Space in DC
* Jonathan Edwards
* Institute for Policy Studies
* Herb Lowrey
* MARIPOSA Press
* Plan B Press
* Scribbles to Scribes Publishing
* The Spark
* Street Sense
* Teaching for Change’s Busboys and Poets Bookstore
* Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature
* Uncommon Sense LLC
* University of Arizona Press
* University of Southern Maine/Stonecoast MFA Program
* Voices UnBroken
and many more!
For more information, check out the Facebook event page or the Split This Rock Book Fair page for more details.
Both events are free and open to the public! All are welcome!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Help Split This Rock Bring Poetry to the Capitol
Poetry In The Streets: Torn Between Bitterness and Hope, Poets Bring Inspiration
to Our Nation's Lawmakers
All are welcome!
The United States has now spent $1 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, our public schools and universities are facing massive cuts, millions of Americans are without health care, the earth is desperate for loving
attention. Clearly, our lawmakers need the poets to tell them how to spend the next $1 trillion.
Bring your vision for the country and the planet to the Capitol!
When: Thursday, March 11
4:30 - 6pm
Where: Upper Senate Park,
U.S. Capitol Grounds
Click here for a map.
We will create and read aloud a collaborative Cento poem at Upper Senate Park. Please bring a line from a poem (up to 12 words), by you or by someone else, that articulates your vision of a dramatic reordering of our nation's priorities. Write or type your line on a piece of paper. Include the name of the poet, your name (if different), and your home town.
Feel free to bring signs, but no poles bigger than ¾" around and no signs offering anything for sale.
The Cento will begin with these lines sent to us by Adrienne Rich, from "An Atlas of the Difficult World":
I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn between bitterness and hope
turning back once again to the task you cannot refuse ...
How to Get There
We will meet at Upper Senate Park on the U.S. Capitol Grounds, near Union Station, on Metro's Red line (or Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter on the Green/Yellow lines).
The #96 bus leaves from the northwest corner of U and 14th Street NW near the festival workshop and panel sites and goes right to the park, stopping at the corner of D Street NW and Louisiana Avenue NW.
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