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Poets Who Will Not Remain Silent: Dispatch from Split This Rock! Poetry Festival 2016

Added: Thursday, May 12, 2016

LynleyShimat Lys reflects on the poetry and workshops of Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2016, coming to the conclusion that, "Split This Rock Poetry Festival....comes as a welcome respite from a poetry world in which formal and artistic concerns often seem far removed from the role of the social justice activist". Read the full blog post here.

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