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Program & Schedule: Sunday, March 25, 2012

Online Registration Closed

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Split This Rock will enter a fallow season on July 1, 2021, and all of our external programming and publishing efforts are on pause until April 1, 2022. We’re excited for time to dig into deeper wells of creativity for: 1) expanding the organizations’ capacity for working towards liberation; 2) defining more concretely what working towards liberation means at Split This Rock; 3) increasing the impact of our poetry, resistance, and community building offerings; and 4) more deeply aligning the organization’s mission with its systems, protocols, and practices. Learn more about the inspiration, projects, and goals for fallow season at the News from Split This Rock webpage. Visit the fallow season webpage to explore responses to frequently asked questions. We’re eager to continue engaging with you! To be invited to fallow season community gatherings we’ll be hosting, be sure to complete this online form.

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.

June Jordan-themed events are denoted with three asterisks (***).

Sunday, March 25

9:30-11 am       DON'T YOU HEAR THIS HAMMER RING? NEXT STEPS FOR SPLIT THIS ROCK, YOUR NETWORK OF SOCIALLY ENGAGED POETS

Sarah Browning
Carlos Rosario International School

As Split This Rock’s third festival draws to a close, hear organizers’ plans for the coming two years and share your ideas and requests. On the docket for Split This Rock are plans to organize creative social change campaigns, present poetry readings via podcast and other new media, build an interactive website—including a resource library that you can help build—and branch out into traditional publishing. Help us design programs and strategies to meet your needs and ensure that Split This Rock rocks on into the future. Get involved! Swing a hammer! Split some rocks!
 

11:30 am - 1 pm      FEATURED READING AND CLOSING CEREMONY: Naomi Shihab Nye, Sherwin Bitsui, and Kathy Engel

All readings will take place in the auditorium at Carlos Rosario International School (1100 Harvard Street NW).