January Resistance Events - Add Your Voice!

Dear Friend in Struggle,

Poetry will continue to be an essential voice of resistance in the years ahead. Poets will speak out in solidarity, united against hatred, systemic oppression, and violence and for justice, beauty, and community.

Split This Rock will be active in this poetic resistance and we invite you to add your voice. Or join us as a reader or audience member, experiencing the challenge and comfort that poetry can provide.

We plan two major events in DC in January, as well as an online platform.

First, we're proud to present a special Writers Resist Sunday Kind of Love featuring Annie Kim and Samantha Thornhill! Writers Resist is a national network of writers driven to #WriteOurDemocracy by defending the ideals of a free, just, and compassionate democratic society. Join us on January 15, 2017, at 5pm at Busboys and Poets, 14th & V. Details at the Facebook event page.

Then, on Saturday, January 21, 2017, at 7 pm, we plan an open mic Poetic Speak Out to complement the anti-inaugural marches and protests taking place that weekend, including the Festival of Resistance and the Women's March. Stay tuned for location details and information on how to sign up to read a poem at this historic event.

Won't be in the DC area that weekend? We'll also be opening this blog, Blog This Rock, as a virtual open mic for poems of resistance and power. Check back in the new year with details on how to submit. And to see a past virtual open mic, go to Blog This Rock, where we posted poems against gun violence and for embrace.

If you believe this work is essential, that poetry is the language of transformation, power, and vision, Split This Rock needs your help. Please invest. Learn what your donation can do at our website. Gifts from first-time donors and increased gifts from existing donors will be matched by the Cafritz Foundation!

With our fists in the air and poetry on our lips,

Split This Rock

Split This Rock at AWP in LA - March 31-April 2

Split This Rock will be at Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP) taking place March 30-April 2 in Los Angeles! If you're attending, we hope you'll come hang out with us at the Bookfair (table #1317!), at a reception we're co-hosting with CantoMundo, Lambda Literary, AWP LGBTQ Caucus, and at an offsite event La Pachanga 2016! Check out all the details below! (See the AWP website for more on the conference.)

Visit Split This Rock at 

AWP Table #1317

 

Visit Split This Rock at Table #1317 in the AWP Conference Bookfair, where you can write a haiku post card to President Obama, buy a gorgeous T-shirt and special issue of POETRY Magazine, and enter a drawing for a free registration to Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2016 featuring Amal Al-Jubouri, Jennifer Bartlett, Jan Beatty, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Regie Cabico, Dominique Christina, Martha Collins, Nikky Finney, Ross Gay, Linda Hogan, and more!  

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AWP Reception with CantoMundo, 

Lambda Literary, AWP LGBTQ Caucus and Split This Rock

 

Saturday, April 2, 6:30 to 8:00pm

Plaza 3, 3rd Floor
JW Marriott LA

Join CantoMundo, Lambda Literary Foundation, AWP LGBTQ Caucus, and Split This Rock for a mixer to relax and unwind over cocktails and hors d'oeuvres. Follow the signs to "LGBTQ Mixer." 

Learn more on Facebook. 

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AWP Offsite Event! 

  

Thursday, March 31
5:30-8:30 pm

Avenue 50 Studio 
131 N. Avenue 50
Highland Park, CA 90042

Celebrating the Release of Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice (University of Arizona Press), edited by Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez

La Pachanga will also be honoring the following Chican@ and Latin@ writers:
Francisco X. Alarcón, RIP
Juan Felipe Herrera
Lucha Corpi
Luis Javier Rodríguez
Odilia Galván Rodríguez

Readings by anthology contributors including US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Split This Rock Executive Director Sarah Browning, among many others. 

Learn more about the event on the Facebook event page.