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Washington DC: An Exploration of a Thriving Poetry Scene

Added: Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Daniel Baldwin of World Footprints covers DC's thriving poetry scene. The article spotlights Split This Rock's various programming, including the Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness, Sunday Kind of Love, the 2019 Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Contest, and more. Read the full article here.

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