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Alice Walker

Every Revolution Needs Fresh Poems

By Alice Walker Alice Walker performs the poem "Every Revolution Needs Fresh Poems" at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Jose Padua

Grinderman

By Jose Padua Jose Padua performs the poem "Grinderman" at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Sonia Sanchez

Poem for Split This Rock

By Sonia Sanchez Sonia Sanchez performed this poem at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Yusef Komunyakaa

Islands

By Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa reads "Islands" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Franny Choi

Pussy Monster

By Franny Choi Franny Choi performs "Pussy Monster" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Shailja Patel

The Cup Runneth Over

By Shailja Patel Shailja Patel performs "The Cup Runneth Over" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Danez Smith

dear white america

By Danez Smith Danez Smith performs "dear white america" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Carolyn Forché

The Museum of Stones

By Carolyn Forché Carolyn Forché reads "The Museum of Stones" at the 2008 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.

These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,
collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,
battlefield, threshing floor, basilica, abattoir–
stones, loosened by tanks in the streets
Aracelis Girmay

Break

By Aracelis Girmay When the boys are carnivals
we gather round them in the dark room
& they make their noise while drums
ricochet against their bodies & thin air
Paul Tran

I Want

By Paul Tran TO SAY IT PLAIN. He comes inside
without a sound. I shut the door

I should have never opened. My body
flips over on the bed like a coin
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