Program & Schedule - Saturday, March 28, 2020
Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness 2020 calls poets, writers, educators, activists, and scholars together for three days of readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, open mics, and activism -- plus, a book fair! Featuring some of the most socially significant and artistically vibrant poets today, the Festival offers opportunities to speak boldly for justice, build connections and community, and celebrate the many ways poetry can be a practice for social change.
We're thrilled to present these 2020 Festival Featured Poets: Cameron Awkward-Rich, Emmy Pérez, Eve L. Ewing, Justice Ameer, Kimberly Blaeser, Kyle Dargan, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Mahogany L. Browne, Marilyn Chin, Safia Elhillo, Sandra Cisneros, Trevino L. Brings Plenty, and the Youth Poets Laureate Azura Tyabji, Maren Wright-Kerr, and Jackson Neal!
REGISTER ONLINE TO ATTEND THE FESTIVAL!
Early bird rates available until Friday, January 31. Online registration ends February 28.
On-site registration available during the festival (see schedule for specific times).
Click the links below to view each day's program. All daytime sessions are held at George Washington University's Cloyd Heck Marvin Center. All venues are wheelchair accessible.
Need the schedule in large print or formatted for a screen reader? Email us at access@splitthisrock.org and we will send you a copy.
NOTE: Schedule below is subject to slight changes.
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Saturday, March 28
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8:30 am-2 pmOn-site Festival Registration
George Washington University Cloyd Heck Marvin Center |
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10 am-3:30 pmSplit This Rock Poetry Festival 2020 Social Change Book Fair
George Washington University Cloyd Heck Marvin Center Join us for the Social Change Book Fair, featuring the critically important work of socially engaged poets, writers, organizations, progressive presses, literary magazines, and independent newspapers, many of whom are also Festival participants. More details and a list of exhibitors will be available in the program book. This event is free and open to the public. |
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9-10:30 am
An Intersectional Feminist Resistance Reading (Reading)
Making Sanctuary: Serving Persecuted Writers & Fostering Community (Panel)
Muddled Myths and Fractured Fairytales for the New Millennium (Reading)
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Panel)
Shape-shifting Bodies: Somatic Rituals towards Art for Gender Justice (Workshop)
Towards a Transformative Practice: Organizing Liberatory Poetry Spaces (Workshop)
Unraveling Whiteness: Using Poetry to Challenge White Supremacy (Panel) |
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11 am-12:30 pm
Black Ladies Brunch Collective (BLBC) Presents: We Are Our Own Gods (Workshop)
Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought! (Reading)
La Cultura Cura: Social Justice Praxis in the Classroom (Panel)
Labels and Labor: Black Writers Exploring the Political Possible (Panel)
Poetry in the Age of Surveillance (Panel)
Sorrow's Not Enough: Queering Climate Crisis (Reading)
The Elements of Spoken Word: Earth, Fire, Wind, Water (Reading)
Poet’s Forum (Panel) |
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12:30-1:30 pmLunch Break |
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1:30-3 pm
Afro-Latinidad Isn't a Trend: Disrupting One-Dimensional Understandings of Afro-Latinx Poetics (Reading)
Inherited Traumas and Contemporary Animosities: Healing the Ruptures (Panel)
Pop Culture vs. Poetry of Witness (Panel)
Practicing Resilience: the Poetics of Diaspora and Resistance (Panel)
TAKEN: Adoptees Speak Out (Panel)
Looking Back to Look Forward (Workshop)
Disease and Disability: Using Poetry to Reveal and Empower (Reading)
Youth Open Mic featuring Youth Poet Laureates Azura Tyabji, Maren Wright-Kerr, and Jackson Neal |
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3:30-5 pm
A Queer Feast - Fruit, Documents, Possibilities (Reading)
Ancestors and Inheritances: Furious Flower Celebrates Black Poetic Legacy (Reading)
De-colonize stanza/Writing in the Apocalypse: QTBIPOC embodiment & feels! (Panel)
Our Bodies as Land: Destruction and Renewal (Reading)
Reclaiming Immigrant Narratives (Workshop)
Salvi Poets Write Back: on Motherland, Diaspora, & Home (Panel)
Spit Your Truth! Spoken Word as Radical Hope in Education (Panel)
Unlearning Our Cages: How to Write into Freedom (Youth Writing Workshop) |
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5-7 pmDinner Break |
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7-9:30 pmFeatured Poet Reading and Book SigningCameron Awkward-Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Kyle Dargan, 2019 Split This Rock Poetry Contest Winner Shabnam Piryaei
National Press Club ASL interpretation provided. Free and open to the public. Reading followed by a book signing. Books will be available for sale by Split This Rock partner Busboys and Poets Books. |
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