Split This Rock Poetry Festival Social Change Book Fair

Saturday, March 29, 2014
10:30 am - 4 pm
Human Rights Campaign, Equality Forum
1640 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

In addition to Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2014 readings, panels, workshops, and opportunities to build community across barriers, this year we will also showcase the significant role of publishers and those who bring us the kinds of writing Split This Rock celebrates: impassioned, visionary, and truth-telling. And we will bring the critically important work of social change groups to poets, activists, and the public.

Browse the Book Fair on Saturday at the Human Rights Campaign Equality Forum to check out small presses, reviews, and organizations with a social justice focus!

Exhibitors include: 

Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here-DC 2016

The Center for Book Arts

Chapters Literary Bookstore

Do the Write Thing Foundation of DC

The MFA Program in Poetry at Drew University 

Flying Guillotine Press

Kim Jensen, US Campaign for the Academic and

Cultural Boycott of Israel

Life Success Center for Children, Youth, and Families

Plan B Press

The Poetry Game: Benefits Split This Rock's Youth Programs

Quiddity Literary Journal 

Quill Sedge Press

RedBone Press

Settlement House

Split This Rock

SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review)

Turning the Page & Carpe Librum

The Writer’s Center / Poet Lore

Zozobra Publishing

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness is made possible in part by support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, and the Open Society, Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz, and Nathan Cummings Foundations. Major partners are Busboys and Poets, the Institute for Policy Studies, and Teaching for Change, which also acts as the official festival bookseller. Cosponsors include the Beacon Hotel; Letras Latinas, the literary arts program of the Center for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame; Poets & Writers; the Human Rights Campaign; the Jimenez-Porter Writers House of the University of Maryland; and the Wilderness Society.

Social Change Book Fair Today!

In addition to readings, panels, workshops, and opportunities to build community across barriers this year, we also want to showcase the significant role of publishers and those who bring us the kinds of writing Split This Rock celebrates: impassioned, visionary, and truth-telling. And we want to bring the critically important work of social change groups to poets, activists, and the public.

With this in mind, we're introducing a Social Change Book Fair to Split This Rock 2010. The book fair will be an opportunity to further our mission of getting the critical work of socially engaged poets, writers, organizations, progressive presses, literary magazines, and independent newspapers to our festival participants.

The Social Change Book Fair will take place on Saturday, March 13, from 9:30 am to 4 pm at the Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage (the old 12th Street Y) at 1816 12th Street NW, Washington, DC.

Social Change Book Fair Tomorrow

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:

* 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!

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!

Social Change Book Fair

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness is gearing up for our second festival March 10-13, 2010, in Washington, DC. In addition to readings, panels, workshops, and opportunities to build community across barriers this year, we also want to showcase the significant role of publishers and those who bring us the kinds of writing Split This Rock celebrates: impassioned, visionary, and truth-telling. And we want to bring the critically important work of social change groups to poets, activists, and the public.

With this in mind, we're introducing a Social Change Book Fair to Split This Rock 2010. This will be an opportunity to further our mission of getting the critical work of socially engaged poets, writers, organizations, progressive presses, literary magazines, and independent newspapers the attention of our festival participants.

Won't you join us? The Social Change Book Fair will take place on Saturday, March 13, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, at the Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage (the old 12th Street Y) at 1816 12th Street, NW, Washington, DC. Split This Rock workshops and panel discussions will be taking place in the same building, ensuring plenty of foot traffic. The Book Fair will also be free and open to the general public and we will promote it widely.

You can download the form from our website here. The deadline for registration is Monday, February 15, 2010.

Also, we are pleased to announce that Split This Rock's "official" hotel, The Beacon, has extended the reduced rate deadline - book by February 5th to take advantage!

And if you have not already done so, register for the 2010 festival to take advantage of our early-bird rates, good through February 10th.

Please feel free to contact Program Associate Abdul Ali with any questions: ali at splitthisrock dot org or 202-787-5210.