Poetry: another way to air unease in the new Trump era
As the United States prepares to inaugurate a president whose use of language has been seen by many as less than clear and accountable, people across the country have taken to various media platforms to communicate their anxieties about what may be to come. Across the country, writers celebrated MLK, Jr's birthday by holding #WritersResist events. Split This Rock's Sunday Kind of Love was one such event. “If we can’t create a vision for the world based on justice and equality that we want to see, there’s no way we can build it. We have to imagine it first,” said Sarah Browning, director of Split This Rock, the locally-based organization of activist poets that co-hosted the Washington reading. Read the full article in Capital News Service here.