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By Caits Meissner
I am 13 hours in the future & it is night / the rain is holding her breath
my friend, isn’t Penang opening to us! / a lotus unveiling a carnival
the paper lanterns are skirts / or balls pushed along by tiger’s nose
our smoke is a canon / dare devil on its way to an unnamed star
By Fady Joudah
Does consciousness exist only when
you name it? Was the double helix a
stranger, the nucleus the first brain?
I feel therefore I am. This is more
By Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady performs the poem "My Body Elizabeth" at the 2010 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
By Martín Espada
Martín Espada performs the poem "Alabanza" at the 2010 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
By Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts performs the poem "The International Fruit of Welcome" at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
By Jose Padua
Jose Padua performs the poem "Grinderman" at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
By Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez performed this poem at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
By Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman reads "Allegorical Baraka" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
By Maria Melendez Kelson
Maria Melendez Kelson reads "For Light So Loved the World She Gave it More" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
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