Poems of Provocation & Witness: March 22-25, 2012

Festival Program and Schedule

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness invites poets, writers, activists, and dreamers to Washington, DC for four 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.

All venues are accessible. Please let us know what your needs are.

Click the links below to view each day's program. June Jordan-themed events are denoted with three asterisks (***).

Wednesday, March 21

6:30-8:30 pm       KICK-OFF READING AND RECEPTION

Details to be announced.


In addition to our featured poets, the following people will be presenting:

Mariam Al-Shawaf
Francisco X. Alarcon
Kazim Ali
Luis Alberto Ambroggio
Peter Anderson
Maria Luissa Arroyo
Kakahama Askary
Carlos Parada Ayala
Naomi Ayala
Jose R. Ballesteros
Samiya Bashir
Holly Bass
Jan Beatty
Grace Beeler
Ari Belathar
Rose Marie Berger
Rei Berroa
Shannon E. Berry
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Tamiko Beyer
Rick Black
Sheila Black
Teri Blanton
Mark Brazaitis
Antoinette Brim
Kenny Carroll
Andrea Carter Brown
Jericho Brown
Sarah Browning
Elise Bryant
Carmen Calatayud
Xochi Candelaria
Kenneth Carroll
Cathy Linh Che
Ching-In Chen
Philip Clark
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Martha Collins
Isaac Colon
Nicole Cooley
Rio Cortez
Patrick Covington
Rachelle Cruz
Aya de Leon
Alexis De Veaux
Joanne Rocky Delaplaine
Natalie Diaz
Celeste Doaks
Joan Thaler Dobbie
Kara Dorris
Jehanne Dubrow
Daniela Elza
Julie R. Enszer
Blas Falconer
Julie Fay

Jim Ferris
Patricia Bejarano Fisher
Yael Flusberg
Aricka Foreman
Ruth Foreman
Ross Gay
Brian Gilmore
Veronica Golos
Nicole Goodwin
Melanie Graham
JoAnne Growney
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Monica A. Hand
Rick Handshoe
Reginald Harris
Merna Ann Hecht
Zahara Heckscher
Niki Herd
Scott Hightower
Lita Hooper
Ailish Hopper
Fanny Howe
Katherine Howell
Kim Jensen
Brandon Johnson
Anne Kaier
Ilya Kaminsky
Jennifer Karmin
Eryca Kasse
Christi Kramer
Quraysh Ali Lansana
Joseph Legaspi
Robin Coste Lewis
Toni Asante Lightfoot
Ed Madden
Bonnie Rose Marcus
Natasha Marin
Lauren McClung
Members of the Iraqi children’s poetry workshop
Ernesto Mercer
Philip Metres
Maiana Minahal
Kamilah Aisha Moon
Trey Moore
Yvette Neisser Moreno
Edward Morin
Bonnie J. Morris
Ibrahim Muhawi
Lauren Muller
Kelly Elaine Navies
Michael Northen
Mark Nowak
Maria Teresa Ogliastri
Alicia Ostriker
Alberto Palomar
Charlie Palumbo
Gregory Pardlo
Soham Patel
Rhonda Pettit
Georgia A. Popoff
Joel Dias Porter
Gretchen Primack
Marcos Ramirez
Bushra Rehman
Barbara Jane Reyes
Odilia Galvan Rodriguez
Lee Ann Roripaugh
John Rosenwald
Joseph Ross
Margaret Rozga
Carly Sachs
Zohra Saed
Willa Schneberg
Susan M. Schultz
Roger Sedarat
Tim Seibles
Junichi Semitsu
Purvi Shah
Greg Shapiro
Solmaz Sharif
Lee Sharkey
Dennis Shaw
Nilofar Shidmehr
Katherine Silkin
Kevin Simmonds
Rachel M. Simon
Daniel Simpson
Renee Sims
Jonathan Skinner
Ellen McGrath Smith
Jennifer Smith
Patricia Smith
Heidi Lynn Staples
Marc Steiner
Kevin Stoy
Stanley Sturgill
Pireeni Sundaralingam
Yermiyahu Taub
Tess Taylor
Daniel Nathan Terry
Susan Tichy
Dan Vera
Julia Roxanne Wallace
Ingrid Wendt
Kathi Wolfe
Demetrice Worley
Carolyne Wright
Jake Adam York

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